PLATt 58 
PLATE XXXII.' 
GASTEROSTEUS pungitius. 
LESSER OR TEN SPINED STICKLEBACK. 
• THORACICI. 
GENERIC CHAR.VCTER. 
Head oblong, smooth; jaws armed with small teeth: tongue 
short, and obtuse.: palate smooth . eyes moderate, very little pro- 
minent and lateral. Branchiostegeous membrane with three, six, and 
sometimes seven rays ; operculum of two pieces, rounded and stnated. 
Body carinated on each side and covered with bony plates : distinct 
spines’ before the dorsal fin: lateral line straight: ventral behind the 
pectoral fins, but above the sternum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Dorsal spines about ten ; and the sides destitute of plates. 
Gasterosteus Pungitius; spinis dorsalibus sub-decim, lateribus 
absque scutis. 
Gasterosteus Pungitius; spinis dorsalibus decern. Fn. Suec. 
Zyi.—Gmel. Sj/st. Nut. 1326. sp. 8. 
Centriscus spinis decern vel undecim non perpendiculanter erectis, 
Sec. Klein, pise. miss. 4. 48 , n. 4. 
