726 The Blennies: Blenniide 
has very long jaws, lined with small teeth. Zittel regards the 
family as allied to the Belonorhynchide, but the prolongation 
of the jaws may be a character of analogy merely. Woodward 
places it next to the Blenniide, supposing it to have small and 
jugular ventral fins. But as the presence of ventral fins is 
uncertain, the position of the family cannot be ascertained 
and it may really belong in the neighborhood of Ammodytes. 
The dorsal rays are figured by Woodward as simple. 
The Patecide, etc.—The Patecide are blenny-like fishes of 
Australia, having the form of Congriopus, the spinous dorsal being 
very high and inserted before the eyes, forming a crest. Patecus 
fronto is not rare in South Australia. The Gnathanacanthide 
is another small group of peculiar blennies from the Pacific. 
The Acanthoclinide are small blennies of New Zealand with 
numerous spines in the anal fin. Acanthoclinus littoreus is the 
only known species. 
The Gadopside, etc-—The family of Gadopside of the rivers 
of New Zealand and southern Australia consists of a single 
species, Gadopsis marmoratus, resembling the scaly blennies 
called Clinus, but with long ventrals of a single ray, and three 
spines in the anal fin besides other peculiarities. The species 
is locally very common and with various other fishes in regions 
where true trout are unknown, it is called “trout.” 
The Cerdalide are small band-shaped blennies of the Pacific 
Fic. 633.—Wrymouth, Cryptacanthodes maculatus. New York. 
coast of Panama. The slender dorsal spines pass gradually 
into soft rays. Three species are known. 
The wrymouths, or Cryptacanthodide, are large blennies 
of the northern seas, with the mouth almost vertical and the 
