208 



THE ADRIATIC GULF. 



Habit. General ; rare ; sp. from Dalmatia, 



Venice, Fiume. 

 Season. Spring and summer. 

 Quality, o. 



Fam. XXV. Gobiesocid.« — Suck-fishes. 

 Gen. I. Lepadogaster, Gouan. 



199. LEPADOGASTER GOUANLL, Lac. 

 The Small Suck-fish, Cornish Sucker, 



Ocellated Sucker, Jura Sucker. 

 Le Barbier, Porte-Ecuelle. 

 Der Bauchschild. 

 Lepadogastro del Gouan (Lt.). 

 Vulg., Taccasasso (Tr.). 

 Pesce ranin {Ven.). 

 Sporcello di sasso, Porchetti (generic term) 



(Fiume). 

 Croat., Riba prasica, Pizdin-prilipak (generic 



terms) (Croat, littoral). 

 Prilipak, Svicica, Babka (Spalato). 

 Habit. General ; not uncommon ; Venice, Lissa, 



Spalato, Zaole, Trieste, Fiume. 

 Season. March to June, September. 

 Quality. 3 ; Minutaja (mixed fish). 



200. LEPADOGASTER LLSTELLUS, 



Nardo. 

 Vulg., Listello, Sfrizin (Ven.). 

 Habit. Venice ; Minutaja (mixed fish). 



201. LEPADOGASTER BR OWN/I, Risso. 

 Habit. A few sp. caught off Ltisina (Dalmatia). 



202. LEPADOGASTER ACUTUS, Canestr. 

 Lepadogaster elegans, Nardo. 



Der rothe Bauchschild. 

 Lepadogastro acuto (//.). 

 Vulg., Porchetti ( Ven., Fiume). 

 Pesce ranin ( Ven.). 

 Taccasasso (Tr., Fiume). 

 Croat. As No. 199. 

 Habit. Rare ; sp. from Trieste. 



203. LEPADOGASTER CANDOLLLL, 



Risso. 

 Mirbelia Decandollii, Canestr. 

 The Connemara Sucker. 

 Vulg., Croat. As No. 199. 

 Habit. General ; common ; sp. from Venice, 



Trieste, Spalato. 

 Season. Winter ; in summer it retreats to deep 

 waters. 



204. LEPADOGASTER BIMACULATUS, 



Flem. 

 Lepadogaster Desfontainii, Risso. 

 Mirbelia Desfontainii, Canestr. 

 The Bimaculated Sucker, Doubly-spotted 

 Sucker. 

 Nomenclature. As above. 

 Habit. Common and general. 

 Season. June, September. 

 Quality. 3 ; Minutaja. 



Gen II. Leptopterygius, Troseii. 



205. LEPTOPTERYGLUS PLGER, Nardo. 

 Gouania piger, Bp. 



Gouania prototypus, Nardo. 



Gouania tipo (//.). 

 Habit. A southern sp. occasionally found in the 

 Adriatic ; specimens from Lcsina (Dalmatia), 

 Trieste, Venice ; is not uncommon at the 

 northern head of the island of Bua (Dal- 

 matia). 



Fam. XXVI. Lophotid.c 



Gen. Lophotes, Gioma. 



206. LOPHOTES CEPEDLANUS, Gioma. 



Lophote Cepediano (Lt.). 

 Habit. Very rare — in fact, accidental ; has been 

 met with at Le"sina on the Dalmatian coast. 



Fam. XXVII. Trach ypterid/e — Ribbon-fishes. 

 Gen. Trachypterus, Gouan. 



207. TRACHYHPTERUS TMNTA, Bl. 



& Sch. 

 Falx Venetorum. Be/Ion. 



