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GATTORUGIN BLENNY. Class IV. 



the nostrils are furnished with a minute bifid 

 appendage; behind the crest are several mi- 

 nute, erect, filiform appendicular; the lateral 

 line is curved near the head ; the pectoral fins 

 are large and ovate, and consist of twelve ravs : 

 the ventral of two unconnected rays ; the dorsal 

 of thirty, and which, from the different lengths 

 of the thirteenth and fourteenth rays, appears to 

 be divided into two fins ; the anal extends from 

 the vent to the tail, and consists* of eighteen 

 rays; the tail, which is rounded, of fourteen 

 rays. The color of the upper part of the body 

 is generally olive green, spotted with pale blue, 

 shaded to white ; the belly white, and the pec- 

 toral fins spotted with orange. The general 

 length from one inch and an half to two inches 

 and an half. Ed. 



2. Gatto- 



RUGIN. 



Scorpioides. Rondel. 204. Ges- 



ner pise. 847- 

 Gattorugine Venetiis. Wil. 



Ichth. 132. Ran Syn. pise. 



72. 

 Blennius pinnulis duabus ad 



oculos, pinna ani ossiculo- 



rum viginti trium. Arted. 



Synon. 44. 

 Blennius Gattorugine. Lin. 



Syst. 442. Gm. Lin. 1177. 

 La Gattorugine. Block ichth. 



v. 94. tab. 167. /. 2. 

 He la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



sons, ii. 468. 



Place. JlHIS curious kind was discovered to be a 

 British fish on the Anglesey coast. 



