CLASS PISCES. 237 



G. niger, L. Perm. Brit. Zool. pi. xxxviii. (the 

 common Goby). Body blackish brown ; the dorsals 

 bordered with whitish ; the most common species on 

 the coast of Europe. The extremities of the superior 

 rays of the pectorals are free ; length four or five 

 inches. 



G.jozzo, Bl. 107. f. 3. (the blue Goby). Brown, 

 marbled with blackish ; blackish fins ; two white lines 

 on the first dorsal, whose rays are prolonged in fila- 

 ments above the membrane. 



G. 7iiinutus,L.Aphia, Penn. pi. 37, (the white Goby). 

 Body of a pale fawn colour ; fins whitish, transversely 

 marked with fawn-coloured "lines ; length from two to 

 three inches. 



The Mediterranean, which is perhaps inhabited by 

 these three species, produced several others of dif- 

 ferent sizes and colours \ 



G. capito, Cuv. ; Gesner. 396. (the great Goby). 

 Olive, marbled, with blackish ; lines of blackish points 

 on the fins j the head broad, and the cheeks inflated ; 

 length one foot and more. 



G. cruentatus, Gm. (the bloody Goby). Large ; 

 brown, marbled with grey and red ; lips and oper- 

 culum marbled with a blood-red ; red lines on the 

 first dorsal ; lines of salient points forming an H on 

 the nape of the neck, &c. 



Some species are also found in fresh water ; such is 

 the Gob.fluviatilis, observed by Bonnelli, in a lake in 



1 See the descriptions of them, but without entirely adopting the 

 nomenclature, in Riss. Icht. de Nice, p. 155, &c. 



