. Fishes. Fishes. y26 The Blennies: Blenniidas has very long jaws, lined with small teeth. Zittel regards the family as allied to the Belonorhynchidce, but the prolongation of the jaws may be a character of analogy merely. Woodward places it next to the Blenniidw, supposing it to have small and jugular ventral fins. But as the presence of ventral fins is uncertain, the position of the family cannot be ascertained and it may really belong in the neighborhood of Ammodytes. The dorsal rays are figured by Woodward as simple. The Pataecidae, etc.—The PatcBcidw are blenny-like fishes of Australia, h
. Fishes. Fishes. y26 The Blennies: Blenniidas has very long jaws, lined with small teeth. Zittel regards the family as allied to the Belonorhynchidce, but the prolongation of the jaws may be a character of analogy merely. Woodward places it next to the Blenniidw, supposing it to have small and jugular ventral fins. But as the presence of ventral fins is uncertain, the position of the family cannot be ascertained and it may really belong in the neighborhood of Ammodytes. The dorsal rays are figured by Woodward as simple. The Pataecidae, etc.—The PatcBcidw are blenny-like fishes of Australia, having the form of Congriopus, the spinous dorsal being very high and inserted before the eyes, forming a crest. Patcrcus fronto is not rare in South Australia. The GnathanacanthidcB is another small group of peculiar blennies from the Pacific. The Acanthoclinidaz are small blennies of New Zealand with numerous spines in the anal fin. Acanthoclinus littoreus is the only known species. The Gadopsidse, etc.—The family of Gadopsidcs of the rivers of New Zealand and southern Australia consists of a single species, Gadopsis marmoralus, resembling the scaly blennies called Clinus, but with long ventrals of a single ray, and three spines in the anal fin besides other peculiarities. The species is locally very common and with various other fishes in regions where true trout are unknown, it is called "; The Cerdalidce are small band-shaped blennies of the Pacific. Fig. 633.—Wrymouth, Cryptacanthodes maculalus. New York. coast of Panama. The slender dorsal spines pass gradually into soft rays. Three species are known. The wrymouths, or Cryptacanthodidce, are large blennies of the northern seas, with the mouth almost vertical and the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David St
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