£38 BODDEItTIA'N GOBY. 



be very numerous ; owing to the small fry becom- 

 ing the prey of other fishes : as a food it is held in 

 little or no esteem. 



BODDERTIAN GOBY. 



Gobius Boddaerti. G. fusco-cceruleus, subtus gilvus, laterihui 



fusco maculates. 



Blueish-brown Goby, buff-coloured beneath, with the sides of 



the body spotted with brown. 

 Gobius Boddaerti, G. pinna; dorwlis anterioris radiis cirri- 

 formibus, tertio longissimo. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1201. 



Pall. spic. zvol. 8. p. 11. t. 2./. 4. 5. 



Native of the Indian seas : length about five 

 or six inches : colour blueish brown above, and 

 reddish white beneath : head varied with brown 

 and white : lips thick and fleshy : body covered 

 with small scales, and marked above by seven 

 brown spots in a longitudinal direction ; beneath 

 which are seven other spots of the same colour but 

 speckled with white : vent surrounded by a black 

 ring, and terminated by a fleshy protuberance : 

 lateral line marked with minute papillae and snow- 

 white spots : first dorsal fin blackish blue speckled 

 with white, and furnished with long projecting 

 filaments : second dorsal fin traversed by five or six 

 white lines : tail blueish white. 



