ClasIV.. CRESTED BLENNY. 167 
Genus XX. Head blunt at the end, and very fteep. 
Body fmooth and flippery. 
Teeth flender. 
Body compreffed fideways. 
Ventral fins confifting generally of only 
two united rays. One dorfal fin. 
Six branchioftegous rays. BLenny Tt. 
With a crefted head. 
the: C REST E DwB L-E NN XY. 
Adonis, ou exocetus. Belon.219. Blennius crifta capitis tranf- 
Galerita. Rondel. 204. Ge/ner verfa cutacea. Arted. [none 
pife. 14, 17, 18. 44. 
Alauda criftata, five Galerita. Blennius Galerita, Lin. yf. 
Wil, Icth. 134. Raii fyn. pifc. 441. 
73° 
HIS fpecies is found, tho’ 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 can 
erect or deprefs at pleafure. On the top of the 
head between the eyes is a triangular lump point- 
ing backwards, and red about its edges. 
+ There being no Engi name for this genus, Blenny is given 
it, derived from the word Blennius, the generical term ufed by 
Artedius, who forms it from BAtwe mucus, it being of a flimy 
nature. 
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