SMALL-MOUTHED WRASSE. 



341 



ACANTHOPTERYGIl. 



LABRIDJE. 



THE SMALL-MOUTHED WRASSE, 



OR ROCK COOK. 



Acantholabrus exoletns, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. xiii. p. 247. 

 Lubrus ,, LIMN. Syst. Nat. p. 479, sp. 33. 



,, ,, ,, Faun. Suec. p. 117, sp. 331. 



,, ,, MULLEH, Prod. Zool. Dan. p. 46, sp. 386. 



,, ,, FAB. Faun. Gicenl. p. 166, sp. 120. 



,, ,, RETZ, Faun. Suec. p. 335, sp. 67. 



,, ,, NILS. Prod. Icht. Scand. p. 77, sp. 7. 



,, ,, FRIES et EKST. Scand. Fish. pt. ii. pi. 3, fig. 2. 



Crenilabrus microstoma, Small-mouthed Wrasse, THOMPSON, Zool. Proc. 1837. 



p. 55. 



Mag. Zool. & Bot. 

 vol. ii. p. 446, pi. 14. 

 ,, ,, Rock Cook, COUCH, Cornish Fauna, p. 39. 



SOON after the publication of the British Fishes, Mr. 

 Couch very kindly supplied me with two examples of this 

 Small-mouthed Wrasse, a species which I had not till then 

 seen, and which on the Cornish coast is called the Rock 

 Cook, where it is not so common as the Corkwing (Creni- 

 labrus Cornubicus), but is occasionally caught in the pots 

 set for crabs. Since that time Mr. Thompson has recorded 

 the occurrence of this species in two northern localities in 

 Ireland, at Cairnlough in the county of Antrim, and at Lough 



