GOBIUS. GOBY. 



Generic Character. 



Caput parvum : Oculi ap- 

 proximate 



Membrana branch, radiis 

 quatuor. 



Pinna centrales unitae in 

 cavam. 



Head small : Eyes approxi- 

 mated. 



Gill-Membrane four-rayed. 



Ventral fins united into the 

 form of a funnel. 



COMMON GOBY. 



Gobius Niger. G. albido nigroque varius, pinna dorsali stcunda 



radiis quatuordecim. 

 Goby with black and whitish variegations, and about fourteen 



rays on the second dorsal fin. 

 Gobius niger. G. pinna dorsali secunda radiis quatuordecim. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 44-9. 

 Gobius ex albo & fusco varius, pinnae dorsi secundee radiis 



sedecim. Bloch.pl. 38. 

 Black Goby. Venn. Brit. Zool. 3. 



ThIS species grows to the length of six inches: 

 the body is soft, slippery, and of a slender form : 

 the head rather large: the cheeks inflated : the teeth 

 small, and disposed in two rows : from the head to 

 the first dorsal fin is a small furrow : the first dorsal 

 fin consists of six rays : the second according to 

 Linnaeus, of fourteen, and according to Dr. Bloch, 

 of sixteen : the pectoral of sixteen or seventeen, 



