Glass IV. BLACK GOBY. 213 



Sect. III. THORACIC FISH. 



Eyes placed near each other. XXI. 



T7 u w a GOBY*. 



rour branchioitegous rays, 



Ventral fins united. 



Gobio niger. Rondel, 200. pinna dorfi fecunda oflicu- 95* Black, 

 Ge/ner pifc. 395. lorum quatuordecim. Ar- 



Schwartzer Goeb. Schone- ted.fynon. 46. 



<velde 9 36. Gobius niger. Lin.Jyft. 449. 



Sea Gudgeon. Rock-fifh. Wil. Eleotris capite cathetoplateo, 

 lilb. 206. Raiijyn.pifc j6, pinnis ventralibus concretis 



Gobius ex nigricante varius, Gronov. Zoopb. No. 281. 



IT is to this fifh that Naturalifts have givera 

 the fynonym of K«ft^, and Gobio, names of cer- 

 tain fpecies mentioned by Arifioik, Pliny, and 

 Oppian. The two firft have not left any charac- 

 ters for us to diftinguifh them by; and Oppian at 

 once fhews that he never intended this kind, as he 

 has placed it among thofe which are armed with 

 a poifonous fpine. Arifiotk was acquainted with 

 two fpecies ; one a fea fifh that frequented the 

 rocks, another thai; was gregarious, and an inha* 



* Formed from Gobius, the generic name bellowed by Na* 

 turalifls on $hefe fifh. 



P 3 blunt 



