CLASS PISCES.
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Family CARANGIDAE, Gunther.
Genus Capros, Lacepede.
Capros aper, Lacepede. Boar Fish.
According to Day (Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland,
vol. i., p. 137), numbers were caught at Harwich and Southend,
about May, 1879. Mr. J. T. Carrington further states
(Zool., 1879, p. 342) the fact of the capture of these specimens
in a shrimp trawl.
Family CYTTIDAE, Kaup.
Genus Zeus, Cuv.
Zeus faber, Linn. John Dory.
This fish is occasionally taken in the shrimp trawls, but
all the specimens that I have ever seen have been small, and
none of them exceeded seven inches in length.
Family XIPHIIDAE, Agassiz.
Genus Xiphias, Artedi.
Xiphius gladius, Linn. Sword Fish.
Mr. Montford records (Zool., 1847, p. 1911) the finding of
a dead one off the coast of Essex in 1834. C. Parsons also
mentions (Zool., 1862, p. 8289) the capture of a living one in
Potton Creek, the sword of which was three feet long. An
Essex specimen mentioned by Day (Fishes of Great Britain,
vol. i., p. 148) was probably the same. Buckland (Famil. Hist.
of Brit. Fishes, p. 37) says a fine specimen, eight feet eight
and a-half inches long, of which he made a cast, was caught
at Leigh, near Southend, in November, 1866 (see also Field,
Nov. 3, 1896, p. 362).