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. 1846 Excerpt: ...to this Plate is not yet published (Sept. 1845). Hab. Sea of Japan. Cossyphus Microlepidotus) Bl. 292 (Lohrus; C. et V. xiii. p. 140. Hab. Sea of Japan. Cossyphus Bilunulatus, Lacepede (Labrus), iii. p. 454? et 528; C. et V. xiii. p. 122; Icon. Reeves, 243; Hardw. 302. Chinese name, Hung ying yu, "Red parrot-fish" ...
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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. 1846 Excerpt: ...to this Plate is not yet published (Sept. 1845). Hab. Sea of Japan. Cossyphus Microlepidotus) Bl. 292 (Lohrus; C. et V. xiii. p. 140. Hab. Sea of Japan. Cossyphus Bilunulatus, Lacepede (Labrus), iii. p. 454? et 528; C. et V. xiii. p. 122; Icon. Reeves, 243; Hardw. 302. Chinese name, Hung ying yu, "Red parrot-fish" (Birch); "Red eagle-fish" (Reeves). Hyacinth-red glossed with yellow inferiorly, each scale finely dotted on the margin with brownish-red, the head above deep crimson, with arterial blood-red stripes. Cheeks and gillpieces silvery with purplish tints, a few red specks and a brownish-red stripe from the corner of the mouth over the lower part of the cheek and suboperculum to the gill-opening. Soft parts of vertical fins and caudal yellow with red shadings. Spinous dorsal, pectorals and ventrals lake-red. Black marks on the hinder part of back and top of tail, and first three dorsal spines blackish-blue. Length of figure 9-J inches. Hab. Mauritius. China seas. Canton. Cossyphus Cyanostolus, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 251; Hardw. 292. Chinese name, Tsing e, " Blue clothes " (Birch); Ching e, " Blue coat" (Reeves); Tsing i (Bridgem. Chrest. 123). Rod. D. 137; A. 310; C. 12f; P. 18; V. 15. (Dried spec. Br. Mus.) A dried specimen of this fish, brought from Canton by John Reeves, Esq., exists in the British Museum, measuring fourteen inches in length. The drawing is eleven inches long. In the number of the rays and many other characters it agrees with C. schoenleinii, but it has not the vertical profile of that species. In the rays, and also in the form and distribution of the markings, it is much like the Labrus japonicus as figured in the ' Fauna Japonica, ' pi. 85, but has a much less convex and more sloping profi...
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