5208 FISHES. ACANTHOPT. Callionymus. 



Mustela vivipara, Sibb. Scot, 25. Will. Ich. 122 Blennius viviparus, 



Linn. Syst. i. 43. Penn. Brit. Zoo\. iii. 211. Don. Brit. Fishes, 

 t- xxxiv. — S, Eelpout, Guffer, Greenbone — Common under stones. 



Length 12 to 15 inches. Body, above, yellowish -brown, marbled with 

 darker spots and streaks ; beneath, yellow. Upper jaw longest. D. 92, 

 P. 48, V. 2, A. C8, C. 48. This species has been long known as an ovovivi- 

 parous fish — When boiled, the back-bone is green. 



Gen. LXI. CALLIONYMUS. Dragonet.— Head depres- 

 sed ; eyes approximated above. 



126. C. Lyra. Gemmeous Dragonet. — The first ray of the 



dorsal fin reaching to the tail. 



Lyra, Merr. Pin. 186 — Dracunculus marina, Bor. Corn. 270 — Cal. Lyra 

 Linn. Syst. i. 433. Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 164. Don. Brit. Fishes, 

 t. ix. — E, Yellow Gurnard, Rotchet, Illeck; S, Chanticleer, Gowdie. 

 — Not uncommon. 



Length 12 inches. Body, splendidly adorned with blue, yellow and white ; 

 rounded, smooth. Gill-covers spinous. Mouth wide. The last rays of the 

 dorsal and anal fins longest. 1. D. 4, 2. D. 9, P. 20, V. 5, A. 9, C. 10.— Mr 

 Neill (Wern. Mem. i. 529) having observed this fish invariably a male, was 

 led to conclude, that the Sordid Dragonet, C. Dracunculus (Will. Ich. 136.) 

 was the female, an opinion probably correct, since the latter differs only in 

 the first ray of the dorsal fin being shorter, the body smaller, and the colours 

 less brilliant. 



Gen. LXII. ANARHICHAS. Wolf-fish.— Mouth armed 

 with conical incisors, and flat grinders. 



127. A. Lupus. — Body, above, greyish, beneath, yellowish, 



with irregular waved transverse bands of a darker colour. 



Lupus marinus, Sibb. Scot. 25. Will. Ich. 130 — A. L. Linn. Syst. i. 

 430. Perm. Brit. Zool. iii. 151.— S, Cat-fish — Frequent in the Ger- 

 man Ocean. 



Length from 2 to 3 feet. Head depressed ; body compressed, smooth. 

 The dorsal fin extends the whole length of the back, 73-rayed. P, 18, A. 46, 



C. 16, rounded This species feeds on Univalve, molluscous and crustaceous 



animals, and it constitutes excellent food, when boiled. 



Gen. LXIII. CRENILABRUS. WitAssE.--The distal free 

 margin of the preopercule denticulated. 



128. C. Tinea. Common Wrasse. — Back nearly straight, 



descending gradually to the mouth. 



Turdus vulgatissimus, Will. Ich, 319. — Goldsinny, Jago, Ray, Pise. 163, 

 — Labrus Tinea, Linn. Syst. i. 477 — Ancient Wrasse and Goldsinny, 

 Penn. Brit. iii. 244, 251. — Goldsinny, Don. Brit. Fishes, t. lxxii — E' 1 

 Old Wife ; S, Brassy. — English and Scotch coast. 



Length about a foot. Body very variable in its colouring, more or less 

 red, variegated with blue and yellow. Mouth ascending ; front teeth conical, 

 lengthened, incurvated. D. y, P. 14, V. a, A. f, C. 18. The last rays of 



