2o6 CRESTED B LENNY. ClassIV. 



PTFNNY* ** eac * k* Unt at thC Cn ^' ^^ Vet ^ ^ ee ^' 



Body fmooth and flippery. 



Teeth (lender. 



Body comprefTed Tideways. 



Ventral fins confiding generally of only two 



united rays. 

 One dorlal fin. 

 Six branchioflegous rays. 



* With a crefted head. 



90. Crested. Adonis, ou exocetus. Belcn, fyn. pifi. 73. 



219. Blennius crifta capitis tranf- 



Galerita. Rondel. 204. Gef- veria cutacea. Arted. fynon. 



ner pifc. 14, 17, 18. 44. ^ 



Alauda criftata, five Galeri- Blennius Galerita. Lin. Jyft. 



ta. JVil. Icth. 134. Raii 441. 



THIS fpecies is found, though not frequently, 

 on our rocky fhores, and is commonly about 

 four or five inches long. 



On the head is a fmall creft-like fin, which it 



* There being no EngUJh name for this genus, Blenny is 

 given it, derived from the word Blennius, the generical term 

 ufed by Artedius, who forms it from Btivva mucus, it being of 

 a flimy nature. 



caa 



