THE 
GLUTINOUS GASTROBRANCHUS. 
Generic Character . 
Mouth terminal, furnifhed with cirri or beards. 
Teeth in a double pectinated row on each fide: 
Upper tooth fingle, fiiarp, in the roof of the 
mouth. 
Body anguilliform, carinated beneath by a foft fin. 
Two Ventral Spiracula. 
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Specific Character , &c. 
Eel-fiiaped GASTROBRANCHUS without eyes. 
The Glutinous HAG. 
Penn'. Zool. Brit. 4. p. 33. 
The HAG-FISH, or Slime-Worm. 
Der BLINDFISCH. 
Bloch, ichth. t. 413. 
The animal which forms the fubjecft of the prefent 
plate was by Linnaeus ranked among!!: the Vermes , 
under the title of My nine glutinofa. Dr. Bloch 
however has with great propriety given it its true 
rank 
