Class IV. TEN SPINED S. BACK. 



355 





La petite Espinoche. Belon 

 328. 



Pisciculi aculeati alterum ge- 

 nus. Rondel, fluviat. 206. 

 Ges?ier pise. 8. 



Lesser Stickleback. Wil.Ichth. 

 342. Raii syn. pise. 145. 



Gasterosteus aculeis in dorso 

 decern. Arted. synon. 80. 



Gasterosteus pungitius. Lin. 



syst. 491. Gm. Lin. 1326. 



Gronov. Zooph. No. 405. 

 Benunge, Gaddsur, Gorquad. 



Faun. Suec. No. 337. 

 La petite Epinoche de Mer. 



Block ichth. ii. 76. tab. 53. 



/•4. 



JL HIS species is much smaller than the former, 

 and of a more slender make. The back is 

 armed with ten short sharp spines, which do not 

 incline the same way, but cross each other ; the 

 sides are smooth, not plated like those of the 

 preceding ; in other particulars it resembles the 

 former. The color of the back is olive ; the 

 belly silvery.* 



* The editor has been assured by an intelligent observer, that 

 this is merely the young of the preceding species, and that the 

 spines diminish in number as the fish grows older. Ed. 



2. Ten 



SPINED. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



2 A 2 



