PLATE 29 
PLATE LXXX. 
COTTUS GOBIO. 
RIVER BULL HEAD. 
* PISCES THORACIC!. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head broader than the body, and spinous ; eyes vertical, and fuf- 
*''shed with a nictitant membrane.: six rays in the gill membrane: 
body round, without scales, and tapCrmg towards the tail ; one or 
•Dote dorsal fin. 
BPECmC CHARACTER 
AN1> 
SYNONYMS. 
Smooth ; body tapering : head broad; gill covers armed with two 
®Pines each. 
Lottos Gobio : Isevis, corpore attenuate ; caplte lato, operculis 
bispinosis. 
CoTTus Gobio: spinis curvatis duabus ad utrumque operculum. 
Bloch. Fisch. Beutschl, 2. p. 12. 7i. 1. t. 38. 
fig. 1. 2. 
Cottus Gobio : Isevis, capite spinis duabus. Mull, prodr . xjsoI, 
Dan. p. 44. M. 368. 
CoTTus Gobio. Linn, Fn. Suec. 322. 
Cottus alepidotus glaber capite diacantho. Art, Gen. 48. syn. 76. 
spec. 82. 
Cobius fluviatilis alter, Bel.nq, p. 321. 
^olUhead, Miller’s Thumb, Will. Ichth. \2>I.-^Rausyn. pisc.'lQ, 
Bull.head. Fen. Brit. Zool. v. 3. p. 216. sp. 97. 
