FISHES. 497 



C. 10. Is met with along the coasts of the Cattegat and 

 North Sea. Not rare, but no where very common,, and never in 

 any quantities. Like many other fish, they live in a state 

 of monogamy, and copulate when they come up from the 

 deeps in November and December to spawn. The flesh is 

 never eaten here. They are sometimes taken on a hook, 

 but generally in nets. 



46. CALLIONTMUS MACULATUS, Raf. Flackig Sjokock. D. 



The hinder dorsal fin is high and pointed, but will 

 not reach back to the root of the tail ; colour yellowish 

 green, with round spots in several horizontal rows ; 

 rarely exceeds 6 in. in length. 



This handsome little fish, whose peculiar home is in the 

 Mediterranean, has been taken both in the Sound and off 

 the Bohus Land coast, in summer and winter, but female 

 fish have never been caught here. 



Colour green-yellow, with small red-brown and pale 

 blue spots ; four parallel rows of round green spots on the 

 hinder dorsal. Fin ray formula as in the last. 



43. Yentrals grown together into an oblique, funnel-shaped 

 hollow. Smor Bultar, Sw. 



Gen. GobiuSj L. 

 Sea Fish, with Slimy Bodies. 



Body large ; long thick scales, all small dull coloured ; 

 easily recognized by the peculiar form of the ventrals, the short 

 anterior rays and the long posterior ones on each side being 

 united together, forming a hollow sucker with which they 

 possess the power of attaching themselves to rocks. 



47. GOBIUS NIGEE, L. Svart Smorbult. The Black Goby. 



D. F. 



Dorsals (the first spinous) near together ; the points 

 of the anterior ones reaching, when the fin is laid back, 

 to the root of the tail ; tail rounded ; jaws of equal 

 length ; length 3 to 6 in. ; the largest of the genus. 



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