PLATF 26 
-PLATE XXXVIII. 
GOBIUS MINUTUS. 
SPOTTED GOBY, 
'fHORACICL 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head small. Eyes placed nearly together, with two pores between 
them. Gill-membrane, with four rays. Body small, compressed 
both sides, covered with, small scales, behind the vent a tubercle. 
Ventral fins united into the form of a funnel. Dorsal fins two. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND , 
SYXO?jYMS, 
Whitish, spotted with ferruginous ; rays of the dorsal, and caudal fin 
obscurely streaked with the latter colour. • 
Gobius MINUTUS : albicans ferrugineo-maculatus, radiis dorsalibus, 
et caudalibus ferrugineo obsolete striatis. 
Pall. S’pic. Zool. 8. p. 4. Gmel. Linn. 
Sj/st. Nat. p. 1199. sjj. 13. 
Gobius Minutus. G. albidus, ferrugineo maculatus, oculis cseruleis. 
Shaw. Zool. V. 4. n. 2. p. 36. 
Sbotted Goby. Penn. Brit. Zool. V. 3. sp. 
