PLATE LXXVI. 
Cyclopterus Cornueicus, Cornish Sucker. Shaw Gen . 
Zool. V. 5. p. 2. p. 397. 
For the discovery of this curious species of Cyclopterus on the 
British coast we are indebted to Dr. Borlase: he found it on the coast 
of Cornwall, and described it under the name of the Lesser Sucking- 
fish, in his Natural History of that county. It was afterwards ob- 
served by Mr. Pennant, in his tour through Scotland, in the sound of 
Jura, and from this latter circumstance it is called the Jura Sucker in 
the British Zoology of that author. And since that time it has occurred 
upon other parts of the western coasts of England, besides Cornwall. 
As we cannot hut disapprove the changing of established names 
in the science of natural history, unless very cogent or sufficient rea- 
sons can be at the same time advanced in favour of the supposed emen- 
dation, we think Mr. Pennant not entirely free from blame m 
abolishing the name given to it by Borlase, and substituting that 
of the Jura Sucker. The alteration is very likely to mislead the 
inexperienced naturalist into a belief of the species being peculiar 
to the Sound of Jura ; or at least that it was originally detected in 
that Sound, neither of which suggestions have the least foundation- 
Mr. Pennant knew that the same fish had been previously found m 
Cornwall by Dr. Borlase, and therefore if he had conceived the name 
of Lesser Sucking-fish inapplicable, it would have been certainly more 
consistent to term it the Cornish, than the Jura Sucker. Neither of those 
names are indeed in our mind admissable, because the characters of the 
fish itself affords one altogether expressive of the species, and which 
tjannot easily be overlooked. Dr. Shaw seems conscious of an ma- 
