GOKIOID.E. 



and its Islands, which, under the name, and with a reference 

 to the galerita of Artedi, contains a Blenny with an enume- 

 ration of fin-rays, which appears then for the first time, and 

 was probably obtained from a specimen. Linnaeus, in his 

 twelfth edition, 1766, quotes both Artedi and Strom for 

 his Blennius galerita^ adding the number of fin-rays from 

 Strom ; thus coupling the characters of the northern Blenny 

 with those of the Mediterranean galerita of Rondeletius. 



Pennant, who appears to have been the first to obtain 

 on our shore a specimen of the northern Blenny of Strom, 

 referred it to the galerita of Linnaeus. Gmelin in his work 

 followed Linnaeus and Pennant. 



The error of Gmelin was first pointed out by Bloch, 

 Schneider, page 169, note, with a reference also to Lin- 

 nseus and Strom, but it was reserved for Cuvier to call more 

 marked attention to Pennant's Crested Blenny, and to give 

 to it the specific name which it will hereafter bear. Cu- 

 vier considers the galerita of Rondeletius to be the same 

 with the B. pavo of Risso's Hist. t. iii. p. 35, sp. 124 ; 

 a fish having only thirty-six rays in the dorsal fin, and but 

 twenty-four rays in the anal fin. 



A comparison of the figure at the head of this article 

 with that of the crested Blenny of the British Zoology, 

 will leave but little or no doubt that they are intended 

 to represent the same species ; yet the Crested Blenny 

 of Pennant, with its two pair of appendages on the head, 

 was referred by Strom, Linnaeus, Pennant, and Gmelin, 

 to the galerita of Rondeletius ; a Mediterranean species, fur- 

 nished with only a single pair of very short and scarcely 

 remarkable appendages over the eyes, and having, in addi- 

 tion, on the back part of the head a transverse fold of skin, 

 which at a certain period becomes enlarged. Linnaeus's 



