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CORNISH SUCKER. 



Gy clopterus Cornubicus. C. fusco-purpurascens, f route producto. 

 Purplish-brown Sucker, with lengthened front. 

 Lepadogaster. Goiian. pise. 177- ^« ^* 7* 

 Lesser Sucking-Fish. Borlase Comw, 269. t,f, 28. 

 Jura Sucker. Pemi. Brit. ZuoL 



Length about four inches : skin without scales, 

 sHppery, and of a dusky colour: the body taper, 

 the riose growing slender from the head, and ending 

 round : the teeth small : before each eye a small 

 filament : behind the eyes two semilunar marks : 

 in the middle of the back an oval mark, formed by 

 small dots of a whitish colour : dorsal fin near the 

 tail, and consisting of eleven rays : anal fin oppo- 

 site, nine-rayed : ventral four-rayed, the rays joined 

 by an intervening membrane with an oval de- 

 pression in the middle : beyond that another strong 

 membrane with a similar depression. Native of 

 the European seas : found by Dr. Borlase on the 

 coast of Cornwall, and by Mr. Pennant in the 

 Sound of Jicra, Dr. Borlace describes his specimen 

 as of a purple colour. 



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