. Fishes. Fishes. CHAPTER XLIV THE BLENNIES: BLENNIID^ [HE great family of blennies, BlenniidcB, contains a vast number of species with elongate body, ntimerous dor- sal spines, without suborbital stay or sucking-disk, and the ventrals jugular, where present, and of one spine and less than five soft rays. Most of them are of small size, living about rocks on the sea-shores of all regions. In general they are active fishes, of handsome but dark coloration, and in the different parts of the group is found great variety of structure. The tropical forms differ from those of arctic regions in the m
. Fishes. Fishes. CHAPTER XLIV THE BLENNIES: BLENNIID^ [HE great family of blennies, BlenniidcB, contains a vast number of species with elongate body, ntimerous dor- sal spines, without suborbital stay or sucking-disk, and the ventrals jugular, where present, and of one spine and less than five soft rays. Most of them are of small size, living about rocks on the sea-shores of all regions. In general they are active fishes, of handsome but dark coloration, and in the different parts of the group is found great variety of structure. The tropical forms differ from those of arctic regions in the much shorter bodies and fewer vertebrse. These forms are most like ordinary fishes in appearance and structure and are doubt- less the most primitive. Of the five hundred known species of. Fig. 615—Sarcastic Blenny, Neoclinus satiricus Girard. Monterey. blennies, we can note only a few of the most prominent. To Clinus and related genera belong many species of the warm seas, scaly and ovoviviparous, at least for the most part. The largest of these is the great kelpfish of the coast of California, Heterostichus rostratus, a food-fish of importance, reaching the length of two feet. Others of this type scarcely exceed two inches. Neoclinus satiricus, also of California, is remarkable 717. 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 Starr, 1851-1931. New York, H. Holt and Company
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