. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 30G PISCES. They live in small troops, among rocks near the coast, swimming and leaping, and can exist for some time without water. Their skin is covered with a mucous secretion, whence they have their common name Blennies. Many of them are viviparous, or bring forth their young alive, fully formed, and capable of subsisting by themselves. They are divided as follows:— Blennies, properly so called, have the teeth equal and closely set, forming only a
. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 30G PISCES. They live in small troops, among rocks near the coast, swimming and leaping, and can exist for some time without water. Their skin is covered with a mucous secretion, whence they have their common name Blennies. Many of them are viviparous, or bring forth their young alive, fully formed, and capable of subsisting by themselves. They are divided as follows:— Blennies, properly so called, have the teeth equal and closely set, forming only a single and regular row in each jaw, bat terminating behind, in some of the species, by a longer and crooked tooth; their head is blunt, their profile vertical, and their muzzle short. .Most of them have a fringed appendage over each eye, and some have another on each temple. Their intestines art- wide and short. The following are some of the more remarkable ics:—B. ocellaris, Ocellated Blenny,or Butterfly-fish. '1 Ins has two lobes in the dorsal, the first marked with around black spot surrounded by a white rins:, and then a black one. It is a native of the Mediterranean, [but is occasionally found in the South of England by dredging. It lives among the rocks and sea-weed, and is under- stood to feed on minute Crustacea and Mollusca. It spawns in spring. It is aver) small fish.] B. tentacularii has four filaments on the head, the dorsal fin even, and a black spot on the fourth anil fifth rays. [It is not named among the Blennies.] /(. gattorugine, has the dorsal nearly even, and only two fillets on the head. [It is found on the Cornish shon -. varj ing in length from one inch to live. The general colour is reddish-brown, paler on the belly.] , has the appe dage over the eye fringed, and the dorsal almost quite even, the anal Ion;:, and the caudal rounded: [it is found on various parts of the British shores, and evi n a- far north as Norway. It i
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