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4. Echineis. Remora, or Sucking- Frsn, Head furnished 



with a flat, ovate, transversely sulcafed shield; body 

 without scales ; branchiostcgous rays six. 



5. Cory phena. Corypiiene. Head suddenly sloping down- 



wards; gill'membrane five rayed; dorsal fm extend- 

 ing the whole length of the back. 



6. Macrourus. Immenset. Head and eyes large; body 



terminating in a long pointed tail. 



7. Gobius. Goby. Head small ; eyes contiguous, with two 



punctures between them; ventral Jins nwMQdimio the 

 form of a funnel ; gill'inembrane five rayed. 



i. Gobiomorus. Characters as in the last genus, excepting 

 the ventral Jins being distinct. 



9. Cottus. Bull-Head. Head large, flat, armed with sharp 



spines ; eyes placed vertically ; gill-membrane six^ 

 rayed ; body lengthened out at the extremity. 



10. Scorpcena. Head large, cirrous, aculeated, blunt, 



without scales ; e^ye^ approximated; teeth in the jaws, 

 palate and throat ; gill-membrane seven rayed ; dorsal 

 fin single, long, the anterior rays spinous. 



11. Zeus. Doree. iieatZ compressed^ sloping ; 5orf//deep, 

 greatly compressed sideways ; first dorsal Jin furnished 

 with long sXanAev filaments issuing behind each ray of 

 the fin: gill-membrane ^Q^QUxViy q&. 



