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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 



THE WHITE GOBY (sw. klar-stlbben"). 



APHYA iMINUTA. 



Plate XIII, figs. 8 and 9. 



rxnlji SI) traitsparoit, iritli a faint fiiif/e i>f lediJish or greoiish jjelluir, that the intenud aifjans arc fisiblc'', and 

 diittrd with black chromntojjhores, in youth chief if at the bases of the second dorsal fin (sometimes not even there), 

 the laudal fin and {most distinctli/) the anal fin. In adult specimens tliere is also a distinct rote of about 2'j dark 

 dots or collections of dots at the middle of the sides, one of these dots or collections of dots being placed in the space 

 between each pair of the transverse sections of the lateral muscles, on the hind part of tJie bodi/ soiiict lines denser 

 and forniinfi a continuous streak along the mJcldle of the sides. The whole dorsal side {sometimes the ventral sides 

 proper as /cell) and the head, especiallg the tip of the snout and the point of the loirer jan\ also strewn, in speci- 

 mens ready to spawn in jxirticular, with similar dark chromatophores, which also appear on the rays of the 

 vertical fins, and generally mark the divisions bettveen the lateral muscles by transverse rons of dots in. an upward 



and dowmvard direction from the middle of the sides. 



R. hr. /); D. 5 1 



1 



.4. 



P. 16—18; V. 



11 1. 12 12 1. 13 



V. ./•+ll+.c: L. lot. 25 1. 2(5; /.. ti: 5; Vert. 27. 



6'>/n. Atheriiia minuin, Risso, Ichiliyol. de Nice, p. 340; Cuv., Val., 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. X, p. 437. 

 Gobius pelliicidus, Nardo, Giorn. Fis., C'hiin. Stor. na(., Pavia, 



III (1824), Osservaz. etc. p. 7; Isis, XX (1827) p. 479; 



Kessl., Bull. Soc. Imp. Natur. Moscou, XXXII (1859) No. Ill, 



p. 260; Gtiii! (Latriincuhts). Cat. Brit. .]fus., Fish., vol. 



Ill, p. 556; Couch {Gobius), Fish. Brit. M., vol. II, p. 171, 



tab. CII, fig. 2; Coll. (Latruncuhis), Foih. Vid. Selsk. 



Christ., 1876, No. 6, p. 2, tab. I, fig. 1—8; Proc. Zoo]. 



Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 319; MoR. (Apln/a), Hist. Nat. Poiss. 



Fr., vol. II, p. 238; Day (Aphia), P'isli. G:t Brit., IreL, vol. 



I, p. 169; LiLLJ. {Aphya), iSv., Norg. Fisk., vol. I, p. 626; 



Coll. (Apliia), N. Mag. Natiirv. Christ., Bd. 29 (1884), p. 62. 

 Aphia meridionalis, Risso, Fur. Me'r., torn. Ill, p. 288. 

 Gobius albiis, Parn., Trans. Roy. Soc. Ediiib., vol. XIV, p. 



137; Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. VII (1837), p. 248, 



tab. XXIX; Yarr., JPist. Brit. Fish., ed. 2, vol. I, p. 295; 



Canestr., Arch. Zool. Aiiat. Fi.^iol.., vol. I, p. 152, tab. 



VIII, fig. 3; GriiR (Lntrnnculus), Cat. Brit. Mns., Fish., 



vol. Ill, p. 80 et 556; Malm (Gobius) Forh. Skand. Naturf. 



Mote, Stockh. 1863, p. 411; Coll. (Latrinicnlus), Forh. 



Vid. Selsk. Christ. 1872, p. 8 (sep.); Blkr, Arch. Neerl. 



So. E.xact., Natur., tome IX, j,. 312; Malm, Ghgs, Boh. Fit., 



p. 435, tab. VI, fig. 2. 

 Gobius Stuvitzii, v. DOb., Kor., Ofvers. Ve.t.-Akad. Forh. 1844, 



p. Ill; Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1844, p. 59, tab. II, fig. 4; 



NiLSS., Skand. Fn., Fisk., p. 229; Grun (Gobio.soma), I.e., 



p. 86; Gill {Boreogobias), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 

 1863, p. 269; Malm (Gobius), Forh. Skand. Naturf. Mote, 

 Stockh. 1863, p. 411; Cou.. (Latrunculus), Forh. \'id. SeUk. 

 Christ. 1872, p. 9 (sep.); ibid. 1874, Tillsegsh., p. 59; 

 Blkr (Boreogobius), 1. c, p. 310; Malm (Latruncidns), 

 Gbgs, Boh. Fn., p. 439, tab. VI. fig. 3. 



The great external difference of sex in the White 

 Goby has found its ex])ressioii in the nnnierous names 

 it has ])oi'ne in the system. In modern times the 

 males (Plate XIII, fig. 8 and tig. 71, a) have been 

 generally known by the name of Latruncidns albus, 

 and the females (Plate XIII, tig. 9 and tig. 71. c), 

 together with the young specimens (tig. 71, b), by that 

 of Latr. {Boreogobius) Stuvitzii. The former were dis- 

 tinguished by the greater size of the teeth and the 

 greater length of the rays at the end of the second 

 dorsal and anal tins. These tishes were also long suj)- 

 posed to be the fry of some larger, still unknown 

 Goby'', until Mal.m in July, 1861, found gi'avid females 

 from 42 to 48 mm. long, in Gullmar Fjord off" Chris- 

 tineberg. In Scandinavia tiie males attain a. length 

 of at least 52 mm.'' 



In this species too, the greatest depth of the body 

 varies considerably according to age and sex, measuring 



" Malm, 1. c. 



Tliis is true only of the living fish. When preserved in spirits, it is an opaque, whitish yellow. 



' Tliis was Pabnell's assumption as to the males, and v. DUben and Koren's as to the fenniles and the specimens where the external 

 differences of sex were not yet developed. The former also cites an opinion flien current among the Scotcli fishermen, that these fishes were 

 the young of Trachinus vipera. 



'' From 40 to 50 mm. in more .soiithern latitudes, according to Moreau; only slightly more tlian 38 mm., according to Day. 



