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LEPABOGASTEE. 
Tite body is depressed from behind the head forward, compressed on 
its hindward half to the tail; the upper jaw lengthened into a narrow 
flattened snout. The sucking organ is divided into two portions, of 
which one is bordered by an union of the pectoral fins, and the other 
by the ventrals. 
CORNISH STICKER. 
SUCKING FISH. JURA SUCKER. 
GyclopUre spatule, 
Lepiadogaster Cornubiensis, 
Cyclopieriis ocellatus, 
Lepadogastor lieiliatus, 
“ Cornuhiensis, 
« « 
“ Gouanii, 
Lacepbdb. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 189. 
Donovan; pi. 76. 
Eisso ; p. 73, pi. 4, f. 9. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 469. 
Tareell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 359. 
Gunther; Catalogue Br. Museum, 
vol. iii, p. 510. 
The species termed the Cornish Sucker is so named because 
it was first noticed in that part of England; and it is there 
still regarded as being pre-eminently the Sucker, from being 
the most frequently met with of this family, and especially bacause 
the propensity to exercise the adhesive faculty immediately excites 
the attention of a casual observer, who may chance to take it 
in his hand, to which with a slight flutter it soon becomes 
attached. Rest and inertness form indeed a prominent portion 
of its habits; and it will continue to fasten itself to one place 
without moving for many hours together. When disposed to 
move from one station to another, it presently again assumes 
the same fixed attitude, which it will sometimes continue by 
means of the mechanical operation of the sucking organ, even 
after death. There is reason to believe that it is not found in 
