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PAGANELLUS. 
PaganelluB, 'Willoughby; p. 207, Table N. 12, f. 4. 
Paganel, Lacepedb. Eisso. 
Gohius paganellua, Lihn,s)us. 
“ “ Gunxheb; Cat. Br. M., vol. iii, p. 52. 
This species has been generally overlooked in British natural 
history, or confounded with the Rock Goby, which it resembles 
so closely that it will be described best by comparing it with 
that species, and noting the circumstances in which they differ, 
as is done by Willoughby, in the following particulars: — It 
seldom grows so large, and its colour is usually more pale, 
(although we admit that the degree or variation of colour is 
little to be depended on in the distinction of species in this 
family. The first dorsal fin is marked along its border with 
a line of yellow or pink colour. In regard to structure, the furrow 
in front of the dorsal fins is less deep and not so long; and, 
what is more observable, the head is something shorter, and 
the jaws more distended. The membrane which connects 
together the external rays of the ventral fins does not rise so 
high; but the distinction advanced the last, where the Paganellus 
is said to keep in rocky ground, and the first-described species, 
on the contrary, prefers that which is oozy, seems less appro- 
priate, since some of the examples of the Paganellus which I 
have seen, and which were obtained from the north shores of 
Somersetshire, through the kindness of E. T. Higgins, Esq., 
were procured from a bottom where only sand or ooze was to 
be found. Whether it will, like the Rock Goby, by choice 
live in fresh or slightly brackish water, seems less certain; but 
the extent of its range appears to imply that it is more sus- 
ceptible to the impression of cold than the Rock Goby; for 
although it has been found in Scotland and the south of 
Ireland, as well as in the north of Somersetshire and Cornwall, 
