GOBIAD.E. 



ACANTHOPTERYG1I. GOEIADJE. 



THE ONE-SPOTTED GOBY. 



Cobius unipunctatus, One-spotted Goby, PARNELL, Memoirs of the Wernerian 



Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. vii. p. 243. 

 ,, ,, Suppl. to Hist. Brit. Fish. p. 24. 



THIS Goby, says Dr. Parnell,' " does not appear to have 

 been noticed by previous authors. I have observed it in 

 most of the sandy bays in the Firth of Forth ; but in greater 

 numbers, and of larger size, in the neighbourhood of the 

 salmon-nets above South Queensferry, where it may be found 

 throughout the summer months in water from two to three 

 feet deep. I found it on the south coast of England, equal- 

 ly common with the Gobius minutus, or Freckled Goby. 



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I have also found it in many situations where the minutus 

 was not seen ; and the minutus has been taken in many places 

 where the unipunctatus did not exist. The most northern 

 locality in which it has yet been observed appears to be the 

 Moray Firth, where James Wilson, Esq. obtained a fine 

 specimen of three and a half inches in length." 



" This fish, although closely allied to the other species of 

 the same genus, is undoubtedly quite distinct from them ; the 

 black spot on the first dorsal fin being far more constant and 

 conspicuous than any character which distinguishes the rest 



