2IO 



SPOTTED BLENNY. Class IV. 



the laft often difpofed in rows above and beneath 

 the lateral line. 



93. Spotted. Gunnellus Comubienjlum, non- 

 nullis Butter-fijhy q. d. Li- 

 paris. Wil. l£lh. 115. Rati 

 fyn.pifc 144.^ 

 Blennius maculis circiter de- 

 cern nigris limbo albicante 

 utrinque ad pinnam dorfa- 

 lem. Arted.fynon. 45. 

 Blennius Gunnellus. B. pinna 



dorfali ocellis X nigris. Lin. 

 fyft. 443. Faun. Suec. No. 

 318. 



Seb. Muf. III. p. 91. Tab. 

 30. fig.6. ^ ' 



Pholis maculis annulatis ad 

 pinnam dorfalem, pinnis 

 ventralibus obfoletis. Gro- 

 no<v. Zoopb. No. 267. 



THIS fpecies is found in the fame place with 

 the preceding, lurking like it under ftones, 

 is equally vivacious, and is ufed as a bait for 

 larger fifh. 



Its length is fix inches : the depth only half an 

 inch : the fides very much compreffed, and ex- 

 tremely thin. 



The head and mouth is fmall; the laft points 

 upwards, and the lower jaw (lopes conliderably to- 

 wards the throat. 



The teeth are very fmall ; the irides whitifh. 



The pedoral fins rounded, and of a yellow color : 

 inftead of the ventral fins are two minute fpines. 



The dorfal fin confifts of feventy-eight fhort fpiny 

 rays, and runs the length of the back almoft to the 

 tail : on the top of the back are eleven round fpots ? 



which 



