Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2377 



883. RUNULA, Jordan & Bollman. 

 Runula, JORDAN &. BOLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 171 (azalea). 



Body slender, its back not elevated ; mouth small, inferior, destitute of 

 canines; teeth fixed, upper largest; dorsal fin continuous, its spines and 

 soft rays indistinguishable, moat of them articulate; caudal fin lunate; 

 gill openings reduced to a vertical slit in front of pectoral ; scales none. 

 This genus is remotely allied to the East Indian genus Petroskirtes, but has 

 the mouth and dentition different, and the caudal fin, unlike that of most 

 blennioid fishes, is forked. (Diminutive of runa, a dart or javelin.) 



2723. RUNULA AZALEA, Jordan & Bollman. 



Head 4; depth 6. D. 42; A. 26 or 27; V. I, 2. Body moderately 

 elongate, not much compressed; head rather long, its upper outlines 

 convex ; snout short and very blunt ; mouth entirely inferior, transverse, 

 each jaw provided with long, slender, close-set curved teeth; no evident 

 posterior canines; eye moderate, equal to snout and nearly equal to inter- 

 orbital width, 4 in head; no tentacles on head; gill membranes fully 

 united to the isthmus, the gill opening reduced to a vertical slit, its lower 

 edge opposite middle of base of pectoral ; no scales ; lateral line very 

 high, concurrent with the back; dorsal fin very low, continuous; the 

 feeble spines and soft rays indistinguishable, the fin beginning at occiput ; 

 anal similar to soft dorsal; caudal lunate behind, well separated from 

 dorsal and anal; pectorals small, rounded, about If in head; ventrals 

 short, before pectorals, about 2 in head. Color reddish brown, silvery 

 below, about 5 dusky cross shades; a dusky lateral streak; a black spot 

 surrounded by paler at base of caudal ; dorsal with about 6 black cross- 

 bars; anal with 4; other fins pale; lower half of head abruptly pale. 

 Galapagos Archipelago. The type, 2 inches long, taken at Indefatigable 

 Island ; 3 more specimens have since been obtained from the same island. 

 , parched, from the brown color.) 



Runula azalea, JORDAN & BOLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 171, Indefatigable Island, 

 Galapagos Archipelago (Coll. Albatross) ; JORDAN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, 233, pi. 37. 



884. BLENNIUS (Artedi) Linnaeus. 



(BLENNIES.) 



Blennius, ARTEDI, Genera Piacium, 27, 1738. 



Blenniu*, LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 256, 1758 (galerita). 



Salaria, FORSKAL, Descr. Anim., 22, 1777 (basiliscus). 



Pholis, FLEMING, Brit. Anim., 207, 1828 (lcevis=pholis) ; not Pholis SCOPOLI, 1777. 



Adonis, GRONOW, Cat. Fish., Ed. Gray, 93, 1754 (pavoninus = ocellarit). 



Lipophrys, GILL, American Naturalist, June, 1896, 498 (pholi*). 



Body oblong, compressed, naked ; head short, the profile usually bluntly 



rounded; month small, horizontal, with a single series of long, slender, 



curved, close-set teeth in each jaw, besides which, in the lower jaw at 



least, is a rather short and stout fang-like canine tooth on each side; 



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