page_title: Pisces in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
section_title: Gobius
hierarchical_section_title: Pisces in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae / Thoracici / Gobius
caption_attribution_description: English: Gobius niger male photographed in Tuscany (Italy) Photo by Stefano Guerrieri. Italiano: Maschio di Gobius niger fotografato in Toscana da Stefano Guerrieri.
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: Gobius (Gobies)
  Gobius niger & Gobius jozo – Black goby
  Gobius paganellus – Rock goby
  Gobius eleotris
  Gobius aphya
  Gobius pectinirostris – Blue-spotted mud hopper
  Gobius anguillaris – Taenioides anguillaris
caption: The black goby was named Gobius niger & Gobius jozo in 1758.
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