Volume 38, Plate XXIX / Ichthyology (Fish)

Guavina of Tacarigua

Erythrinus guavina

Procured in Lake Valencia or Tacarigua at 220 toises elevation, this Guavina is an extremely voracious fish about twenty inches long, with pointed tricuspid-seeming teeth, a loose fleshy membrane beneath the throat, and large round loosely imbricated olive scales. Its colours are a silvery yellow with green fins barred narrowly and transversely with a darker shade; it is said to be the prey of a large Saurian reptile the natives call Bava.