PLATE 25 
PLATE CIV, 
GOBIUS NIGER, 
BLACK GOBY. 
***BISCES THORACIC 1. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head small. Eyes placed nearly together, with two pores between 
GilUmembrane, with four rays, ^ody small, compressed at 
^oth sides, and covered with small scales ; behind the vent a tubercle,' 
Ventral fins united into the form of a funnel. Dorsal fins two. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Varied : white and fufcous ; second dorsal fin with about fourteen 
fays. 
G 
°t!itjs Niger: ex albo et fusco varius, pinna dorsal! secunda 
radiis xiv. Bloch. Fisch. Deiitsch. 2. p. 5. t. 38./' 
J, 2, 5. 
^OBius Niger : pinna dorsal! secunda radiis quatuor decim. Mus. 
Ad. Fr. 2. p. &^.—Gmd. Linn. Syst. Nat. T. I. 
p. 3. fl. 1196. 
■ eotris capite catheto plateo, pinnis ventralibus concretis. Gronov, 
Zooph. iVb. 281? 
pobms Niger, Sea Gudgeon, Rock fifii. Will. Ichth. 206.— Bait 
syn. pise. IS. 
^°ulereau, or Gougeon de Mer. Lacepede, Sic, 
Goby. Fenn. Brit. Zool. v. Z.p, 213. 21. 
