174 BLACK GORY Clafs IV. 
Sek. UL OT HOR ACTC FL Ssaee 
Genus XXI. Eyes placed near each other. 
Four branchioftegous rays. 
Ventral fins united. Gopy*. 
I the BL AC KG One 
Gobio niger. Rondel. 200. Ge/> _—pinna dorfi fecunda officu- 
ner pife. 395- lorum quatuor decim. Arted. 
Schwartzer Goeb. Schonevelde. —_fynon. 46. 
36. Gobius niger. Lin. /j/?. 449. 
Sea Gudgeon. Rock-fifh. Wil. Eleotris capite cathetoplateo, 
Icth. 206. Raii /yn. pife. 76. pinnis ventralibus concretis, 
Gobius ex nigricante varius, Gronov. Zooph. No. 281. 
T is to this fifh that Naturalifts have given the fy- 
I nonym of Kw&s, and Godio, names of certain 
fpecies mentioned by 4riftetle, Pliny, and Oppian. 
The two firft have not left any charaéters for us to 
diftinguifh them by; and Oppian at once fhews that 
he never intended this kind, as he has placed it, among 
thofe which are armed with a poifonous fpine. 
Ariftotle was acquainted with two fpecies; one 
a fea fifh that frequented the rocks, another that 
was gregarious, and an inhabitant of rivers, which 
Jaft feems to have been our common gudgeon. 
* Formed from Godius, the generic name beftowed by Natu- 
turaliits on thefe fish. 
This 
