2o6 CRESTED BLEN NY. ClassIV. 



-nrT^^X;Tr* Hcad bluHt at the end, and very fteep. 



Body fmooth and flippery. 



Teeth flender. 



Body comprelTed fideways. 



Ventral fins confiding generally of only two 



united rays. 

 One dorfal fin. 



Six branchioflegous rays. 



* With a crefted head. 



Q'o. Crested. Adonis, ou exocetus. BeloK, fyn, pifc. 73. 



219. Blennius crifta capitis tranf- 



Galerita. Rondel. 204. Gef- verfa cutacea. Arted. Jynon, 



7ier pifc. 14, 17, 18. 44. 



Alauda criftata, five Galeri- Blennius Galerita. Lin. Jyfi, 



ta, Wil. Icth. 134. Raii 441. 



THIS fpecies is found, though not frequently, 

 on our rocky fhores, and is commonly about 

 four or five inches long. 



On the head is a fmall creft-like fin, which it 



* There being no Englijh name for this genus, Bhnny is 

 given it, derived from the word Blennius^ the generical term 

 ufed by Artedius^ who forms it from '^■hma, mucus ^ it being of 

 a Hijny nature. 



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