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CONNEMARA SUCKER. 
gouan’s suckee. 
Lepadogaster, 
Lepadogastere Gouan, 
Lepadogaster cepTialua, 
Gotjan; p. 177, pi. i, f. 6, 7, 
Lacepbde. Eisso. 
Thompson; Nat. Hist, of Ireland, 
vol. iv, p. 214. 
The references here given are placed together from the 
belief that they are applicable to the same species, and of 
which the figures we supply may be said to he the first that 
have been published. They are at least new in British natural 
history; and we add, that if the three contained in our plate 
may be supposed, from their different appearance and colour, 
to belong to two distinct fishes, it will then follow that there 
are two species of this family which are now for the first 
time arranged among British fishes. The figure given by 
Gouan does indeed display some differences from those which 
are here produced; but the engravings in that author’s work 
appear to have been intended for diagrams rather than individual 
likenesses; and if there is found some difference of description 
in the works of Lacepede and Risso, that difference especially 
is at variance with the extended notice of the fish in the work 
of Gouan, which still these writers refer to as their authority. 
The last-named author describes the surface of his fish as 
treslisse, and in Latin Isevissima, or very smooth, as we have 
found it when fresh from its native element; but according to 
Lacepede and his follower, Risso, the skin is marked with 
slight tubercles or granulations. 
But justice ■win not be done to this portion of the subject 
unless we quote the remarks of Mr. Thompson; for although 
the opinion of that gentleman may in some degree appear to 
difier from that which we advance, there can be little doubt 
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