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ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



IX. THE FAMILY OF GOBIES. 

 GOBIOID^. 



Representatives in British Fauna, — Gen. 7« ^SJo. 16, 



Gen. 39. Blennius. Sp. 64. B. Montagui. 



65. B. Ocellaris. 



66. B. Gattorugine. 



67. B. Yarrellii.. 

 68.P.lcevis. . . 



69. G. guttata. , 



70. Z. viviparus. , 



71. A. lupus. , . 



72. G. niger. . . 



73. G.Rutliensparri 



74. G. minutus. . 



75. G. gracilis. , 



76. G.unipunctatus. 



77. G.albus. . . 

 45. Callionymus. 78. C. lyra. . . 



79. C. dracunculus. 



40. Pholis. 



41. GUNNELLUS. 



42. ZOARCUS. . 



43. Anarrhicas, 



44. GoBius. . . 



Montague's Blenny. 

 OeeUated Ditto. 

 Gattoruginous Do, 

 Yarrell''s Do. 

 The Shan or Shanny. 

 Spotted Gunnel. 

 Viviparous Blenny. 

 The Wolf-fish. 

 The Black Goby. 

 , Double-spotted Do, 

 Spotted Do. 

 Slender Do. 

 One-spotted Ditto. 

 White Ditto. 

 Gemmeous Drago- 



net. 

 Sordid Do. 



Under the family of Gobioid^, Baron Cuvier has 

 united those osseous fishes which possegs the least 

 claim to a place in the great series of the Acanthop- 

 terygii. Nearly the whole of them have their dorsal 

 fins slender and flexible, and in one genus in parti- 

 cular (Zoarciis) they are so very soft, that many 

 Ichthyologists question, though without sufficient 

 ground, the propriety of their admission. The seve- 

 ral members of the family strikingly resemble each 



