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BLENN01D GADUS. 



spawn among the stones and sea-plants towards the 

 borders of the shore. 



BLENNOID GADUS. 



Gadus Blenoides. G. argenteus, dorso svbcinereo, pinnis vent- 



ralibus didactylis. 

 Silvery Gadus, with greyish back, and didactyle ventral fins. 

 Gadus blennoides. G. pinnis ventralibus didactylis. Vail. spic. 



zool. 8. p, 47. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1165. 



Described by Dr. Pallas. Habit of a Whiting : 

 length about a span : body plump, soft, convex, 

 compressed, silvery white, with subcinereous back, 

 and covered with very small scales: head thick, 

 conic, obtuse ; lips fleshy, doubled : teeth minute, 

 unequal, in the upper jaw extremely minute, hardly 

 more than six, at some distance from each other, 

 being distinctly visible : tongue sharp and fleshy : 

 palate longitudinally striated : eyes large ; irides 

 silvery : lateral line arched on the fore-part : fins 

 yellowish white, with very slender rays : dorsal and 

 anal fins reclined ; the first dorsal narrow, tri- 

 angular; the second narrower; the third a little 

 broader and shorter : pectoral fins subfalcated, very 

 thin ; first ray of the ventral ones very long, thickish, 

 and bifid : tail forked, with rounded ends. Native 

 of the Mediterranean. 



