Class IV. VIVIPAROUS BLENNY. 



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which reach to the lower half of the dorsal fin ; 

 they are black, half encircled with white. The 

 vent is in the middle of the body ; the anal fin 

 extends from it almost to the tail; the tail is 

 rounded, and of a yellow color ; the back and 

 sides are of a deep olive ; the belly whitish. 



Mustek marina vivipara, Ael- 

 quappe, Ael-puet, Ael-mo 

 moder. Schonevelde, 50. tab. 

 4. 



Guffer, Eelpout. Sib. Scot. 

 iii. 25. 



Mustek vivipara Schoneveldii. 

 Wil. Ichth. 122. Iiaii Syn. 

 pise. 6Q. 



Blennius capite dorsoque fusco 

 flavescenteliturisnigris, pin- 

 na ani flava. Arted. Synon. 

 45. 



Blennius viviparus, B. ore 



tentaculis duobus. Lin. Syst. 5. Vivipa- 



443. Gm.Lin. 1182. R0US ' 



Tangkke. Faun. Suec. No. 



317. Mus. Ad. Ft. i. 69. 



tab. 32. 

 Euchelyopus corpore lituris 



variegato ; pinna dorsi ad 



caudam sinuata. Gronov. 



Zoopk. No. 265. 

 La Lote vivipare. Block ichth. 



ii. 168. tab. 73. 

 Le Blennie vivipare. De la 



Cepede Hist, des Poissons, 



ii. 496. 



SCHONEVELDE first discovered this spe- 

 cies ; Sir Robert Sibbald afterwards found it on 

 the Scotch coasts ; and Linnceus has described 

 it in his account of his Swedish Majesty's Mu- 

 seum. 



It is viviparous, bringing forth two or three 

 hundred young at a time ; its season of partu- 

 rition is a little after the depth of winter. Be- 

 fore Midsummer it quits the bays and shores, 



