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The Blennies : Blenniidas 



has very long jaws, lined with small teeth. Zittel regards the 

 family as allied to the Belonorhynchidce, but the prolongation 

 of the jaws may be a character of analogy merely. Woodward 

 places it next to the Blenniidce, supposing it to have small and 

 jugular ventral fins. But as the presence of ventral fins is 

 uncertain, the position of the family cannot be ascertained 

 and it may really belong in the neighborhood of Ammodytes. 

 The dorsal rays are figured by Woodward as simple. 



The Pataecidae, etc. The Pat&cida are blenny-like fishes of 

 Australia, having the form of Congriopus, the spinous dorsal being 

 very high and inserted before the eyes, forming a crest. Pat&cus 

 fronto is not rare in South Australia. The Gnathanacanthidcc 

 is another small group of peculiar blennies from the Pacific. 

 The Acanthodinidcz are small blennies of New Zealand with 

 numerous spines in the anal fin. Acanthoclinus liitoreus is the 

 only known species. 



The Gadopsidae, etc. The family of Gadopsidce of the rivers 

 of New Zealand and southern Australia consists of a single 

 species, Gadopsis marmoratus, resembling the scaly blennies 

 called Clinus, but with long ventrals of a single ray, and three 

 spines in the anal fin besides other peculiarities. The species 

 is locally very common and with various other fishes in regions 

 where true trout are unknown, it is called "trout." 



The Cerdalidoz are small band-shaped blennies of the Pacific 



FIG. 465. 'Wrymouth, Cryptacanthodes maculatux. New York. 



coast of Panama. The slender dorsal spines pass gradually 

 into soft rays. Three species are known. 



The wrymouths, or Cryptacanthodida, are large blennies 

 of the northern seas, with the mouth almost vertical and the 



