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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
THE SHANNY (sw. sicyggfisken “). 
BLENNIUS PI40LIS. 
E'ig. 6 1 . 
Head without dermal fringes above the eyes, hut the hind margin of the anterior nostrils raised and' broken up into 
a fringe. Even the anterior part of the dorsal fin 'with rays soft at the tip. One or two canine teeth on each 
side of the upper and lower jaws, behind the end of the front row, which consists of f rom 15 to 24 compressed teeth. 
Fig. 61. Shanny ( Blennius pholis ), taken on the fishing-bank of Jeederen (on the coast of Norway), at a depth of from 60 to 100 fathoms, 
according to the statements of the fishermen, a: natural size; b: the head, ihagn. 2 dinm., in order to show the position of the nostrils and 
the dermal flap of the anterior nostril. The lips too, are turned slightly back to show the teeth. 
R. br. 6; D. — ^ A. 19*; P. 13; V. 1 C. ar+9+.r; 
18 1. 19° 3 
L. lat. por. 40 — 50. 
Syn. Vix CDtolig, Aristot. ; vix Pholis Bonder.; vide Art. Syn ., 
p. 116. 
Cataphractus Icevis , Jago apud Raiium, Syn. Meth. Pise., p. 
164, tab. 1, fig. 10. 
Blennius Pholis (p. p.) Lin., Syst. Nat., ed. X, tom. I, p. 257; 
Bl., Fisch. Deutschl., part. II, p. 184, tab. LXXI, figg. 2 et 3; 
Yabr., Hist. Brit. Fish., ed. II, vol. I, p. 260; Gthr, Cat. 
Brit. Mus., Fish., vol. Ill, p. 226; Steind., Stzber. Akad. 
Wiss. Wien, LVII, i, (1868), p. 674; Coll., Vid. Selsk. 
Forh. Crist. 1874, Tillsegali., p. 72; ibid. 1879, No. 1, p. 
58; Day, Fish. G:t Brit., Irel., vol. I, p. 203, tab. LX, 
fig. 2; Moreau, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Fr., tom. 2, p. 143. 
Pholis Icevis, Flem., Hist. Brit. Anirn., p. 207; Cuv., Val., 
Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. XI, p. 269; Kroy., Damn. Fiske , 
vol. I, p. 330; Nilss., Stand. Fn ., Fisk., p. 182; Lillj., 
Sv., Norg. Fisk., vol. I, p. 517. 
The Shanny, which attains a length of 160 mm., 
is in form of body relatively the deepest and thickest 
of the Scandinavian Blennioids, the greatest depth of 
the body being 19 or 20 % of the length, and the 
“ Nilsson, 1. c 
b Sometimes 11, according to Day. 
c „ 20, „ „ „ 
18—20, „ „ „ 
greatest breadth, across the cheeks, from 14 to 16 %. 
The breadth at the axils is equal to, or only slightly 
less than, the breadth across the cheeks, and the pos- 
terior part of the body is more compressed at the 
dorsal edge than at the ventral. With this exception 
it tapers fairly evenly towards the tail, which is strongly 
compressed, though the abdomen is, as usual, more 
swollen, even laterally. The least depth of the body 
in a young specimen, 93 mm. long, measured 6‘8 % 
of the length, and in an older specimen, 125 mm. long, 
7‘7 %. The head, with the eyes set high and the snout 
steeply sloping, measures in young specimens 27 % ol 
the length of the body, in old 26 %. The gape is 
fairly small, placed low down and almost horizontal, 
with the upper jaw projecting slightly in front of the 
lower, and with its swollen labial skin extending back 
to a point almost vertically below the middle of the 
eye, the longitudinal diameter of which is 18 % of the 
length of the head in young specimens, 16 % in old. 
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