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GATTORUGINE. 



millimetres in length : the colour of the body is 

 brown, streaked with black, and the skin is ex- 

 tremely mucous or slippery. When dead, the 

 colour frequently changes to a pale blue: there 

 is no particular appearance of a lateral line, except 

 what results from the longitudinal trace between 

 the dorsal and lateral muscles. 



The Count de Cepede farther informs us that the 

 above species, in the manuscripts of Commerson, 

 its first describer, is considered as a distinct genus, 

 under the name of Alticus, and called Alticus saltan 

 torius, but that it is a genuine species of Blenny. 

 The gill-membrane has at least five rays : the dorsal 

 fin has thirty-five articulated rays; the pectoral fins 

 thirteen ; the ventral two filiform rays ; the anal 

 twenty-six, and the tail, which is of a lanceolate 

 sliape, ten rays. 



GATTORUGINE. 



Blennius Gattorugine. jB. albidus fusco transversim undulatus, 

 piimulis svperciliorum nuch&que palmatis. 



Whitish Blenny, with transverse brown undulations, and 

 palmated cirri over the eyes and the nape. 



Blennius Gattorugine. B, pinnulis superciliorum nuchcequc pal- 

 matis. Lin, Sy&t. Nat. p. 441. 



Gattorugine. Wilt p. 132. Venn, Brit Zool, pi. g6. Block, 

 pi. 167, 



The Gattorugine is a Mediterranean species^ 

 usually growing to the length of eight or ten 

 inches. It is of a moderately lengthened and com- 



