Class IV. BEARDED LOCHE. 



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Sect. IV. 



ABDOMINAL. 



GENUS XL. LOCHE. 



Eyes on the upper part of the head. 

 Aperture to the gills closed below. 

 Beards several on the end of the upper jaw. 

 Body of almost an equal thickness. 

 Fin one dorsal. 



La Loche franche. Belon, 321 . 

 Cobitis barbatula. Rondel. 



fluviat. 204. 

 Cobitis fluviatilis barbatula. 



Gesner pise. 404. 

 Smerling, Smerle. Schone- 



velde, 31. 

 Loche, or Groundling. Wil. 



Ichth.265. Raii Syn. pise. 



124. 

 Cobitis tota glabra maculosa, 



corpore subtereti. Arted. 



Synon. 2. 



Cobitis Barbatula. C. cirris 1. Bearded, 



sex capite inermi compresso. 



Lin. Syst. 499- Gm. Lin. 



1348. Gronov. Zooph. No. 



202. 

 Gronling. Faun. Suec. No. 



341. 

 Grundel. Kram. 396. Wulff. 



Boruss. No. 40. 

 La Loche franche.jB/ocA ichlh. 



i. 179. tab. 31. f. 3. 

 Le Cobite Loche. De la Cepede 



Hist, des Poissons, v. 8. 



A HE loche is found in several of our small 

 rivers, keeping at the bottom of the gravel, and 



