page_title: Pisces in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
section_title: Jugulares
hierarchical_section_title: Pisces in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae / Jugulares
caption_attribution_description: English: Blennius ocellaris photographed in the Strait of Messina (Sicily, Italy). Photo by Gianni Neto.
context_page_description: In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus described the Pisces as:
  Always inhabiting the waters; are swift in their motion and voracious in their appetites. They breathe by means of gills, which are generally united by a bony arch; swim by means of radiate fins, and are mostly covered over with cartilaginous scales. Besides the parts they have in common with other animals, they are furnished with a nictitant membrane, and most of them with a swim-bladder, by the contraction or dilatation of which, they can raise or sink themselves in their element at pleasure.
  Linnaean Characteristics
  Heart: 1 auricle, 1 ventricle. Cold, dark red blood
  Gills: external
  Jaw: incumbent
  Penis: none
  Eggs: without whites
  Organs of Sense: tongue, nostrils?, eyes, ears
  Covering: imbricate scales
  Supports: fins. Swims in the Water & Smacks.
context_section_description: Callionymus (dragonets)
  Callionymus lyra & Callionymus dracunculus – Common Dragonet
  Callionymus indicus – Bartail flathead
  Uranoscopus (stargazers)
  Uranoscopus scaber – Uranoscopus scaber
  Trachinus (weevers)
  Trachinus draco – Greater weever
  Gadus (cod & kin)
  Gadus aeglefinus – Haddock
  Gadus morhua & Gadus callarias – Atlantic Cod
  Gadus luscus & Gadus barbatus – Pouting
  Gadus minutus – Poor cod
  Gadus virens & Gadus carbonarius – Coalfish
  Gadus merlangus – Whiting
  Gadus pollachius – Pollock
  Gadus merluccius – European hake
  Gadus molva – Common ling
  Gadus lota – Burbot
  Gadus mustela – Fivebeard rockling
  Gadus mediterraneus – Shore rockling
  Blennius (blennies)
  Blennius galerita – Montagu's blenny
  Blennius cristatus – Molly Miller
  Blennius cornutus – Horned blenny
  Blennius ocellaris – Butterfly Blenny
  Blennius gattorugine – Tompot blenny
  Blennius superciliosus – Clinus superciliosus
  Blennius mustelarius – nomen dubium
  Blennius pholis – Combtooth blenny
  Blennius gunnellus – Rock gunnel
  Blennius viviparus – Viviparous eelpout
  Blennius lumpenus – unknown
  Blennius raninus – Tadpole fish
  Ophidion (cusk-wels)
  Ophidion barbatum – Snake blenny
  Ophidion imberbe – Rock gunnel
  Ophidion macrophthalmum – Red bandfish
caption: The butterfly blenny was named Blennius ocellaris in 1758.
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