Class IV. TEN SPINED S. BACK. 



355 



La petite Espinoche. Belon 

 328. 



Piscicnli aculeati alterum ge- 

 nus. Rondel. fiuviat. 206. 

 Gesner pise. 8- 



LesserStickieback. Wil. Ichth. 

 342. -Ran 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. 



2. Ten 



SPINED. 



X HIS species is much smaller than the former, 

 aiid 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 j 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. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



2a2 



