This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...is, I consider, the Solea pana sive Lingula described and figured by Rondeletius, and again repeated in the works of Gesner (lib. iv. p. 669), Aldro-vandus (p. 237), and Willughby (p. 102, pi. F. 8, f. 1). With reference to this, the following note on three specimens obtained since the publication of my paper ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...is, I consider, the Solea pana sive Lingula described and figured by Rondeletius, and again repeated in the works of Gesner (lib. iv. p. 669), Aldro-vandus (p. 237), and Willughby (p. 102, pi. F. 8, f. 1). With reference to this, the following note on three specimens obtained since the publication of my paper in the Annals may be here given. Of these, which are from 3 to 3 J inches in length, one has the outline of Solea vulgaria; but the other two differ much from it in being narrower, and tapering more towards the tail, thus precisely resembling, even to the turn of the caudal fin, the Solea parva sive Lingula as represented by these authors: the lateral line too approximates the form given in the figure of this species, but in the specimens is placed rather higher on the body; in these it originates considerably above the middle, ami for some way slopes gradually downwards, until it takes a course midway between the dorsal and ventral profile. A figure of this fish illustrates Dr. Parnell's paper before referred to in the first volume of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany. " The two localities in which this species has occurred in England are southern: at Weymouth in Dorsetshire, whence the single specimen was obtained that served for Mr. Jenyns's description; and at Brixham on the adjoining coast of Devonshire, where, Dr. Parnell informs us, it is taken in the trawl-nets throughout the year. In Ireland it has been procured with the trawl or dredge both in the North and South; in the month of August in the open sea off Dundrum, County of Down; in June and October within the entrance to Belfast Bay, and at Youghal in the County of Cork. (See Annals, loc. tit.) Of its occurrence in Scotland I have not seen any record. This is described to be a...
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