358 GOBIID^!. 



Gunnellus Grcenlandicus, Reinhardt, C. et V. ii. p. 442, pi. 340. 

 Radii: Br. 5-5 ; D. 88 ; C. 19 ; V. 44 vel 45 ; P. 13 ; V. 1. 



PLATE XXVII., nat. size. 



Bloch stated that his fasciatus came from Tranquebar, and 

 Professor Reiuhardt, finding the Blennius gunnellus of Fabri- 

 cius to differ in some respects from Bloch's description and 

 figure of fasciatus, gave it the name of Grcenlandicus, at the 

 same time expressing doubts of the correctness of the habitat 

 assigned by Bloch to his fish. For the same reasons the two 

 specific names were retained in the ' Histoire des Poissons/ 

 but Professor Reinhardt having in 1831 discovered Bloch's 

 specimen in the Museum at Berlin, found it to be of the same 

 species as that described by Fabricius, and therefore restored 

 Bloch's name of fasciatus, which has the priority. 



The Northumberland Sound specimen, figured of the natu- 

 ral size in Plate V., agrees in species with the Grosnlandicus of 

 Cuvier, as may be seen by comparing our plate with that in 

 the ' Histoire des Poissons.' It is fully described in the text 

 of that work, and we need not therefore enter into details here. 

 In the character of its markings it has a resemblance to the 

 Gunnellus vulgaris, so abundant on the Lincolnshire coast; 

 both have cross bands, though the ground tints differ. There 

 is also a difference in the dorsal spots, which in vulgaris are 

 smaller, neater, round and black, and more exactly defined by 

 a pale border. In this species also the two minute ventrals 

 are distinct from one another, while in fasciatus a single mi- 

 nute papilla represents both* (fig. 2). 



Dimensions. 



Total length 8'16 inches. 



Length to gill-opening . 0'7S 



Length to anus 4-10 



Greatest height just before anus - 90 



* On slitting up the skin round the ventral of fasciatus only a 

 single, minute, elastic, round, subulate process was found, in which 

 the rays, if any, could not be made out. 



