Blennius palmicornis, _Cuv. et Val._ Hist. des Poiss. tom. xi. p. 159.
The Blenny, which I have referred above to the _B. palmicornis_ of
Cuvier and Valenciennes, seems somewhat intermediate in its characters
between that species and the _B. parvicornis_ of the same authors. This
inclines me to suspect that the two species are not really distinct, as
those authors themselves seem to have thought possible, though they
state that they never received the _B. palmicornis_, except from the
Mediterranean.[30]
In this specimen the head is one-fifth of the entire length, and the
ventrals one-eighth, which is worth noticing, because it is stated
that in the _B. palmicornis_ the head is contained nearly five and a
half times, and sometimes nearly six times in the total length; and
the ventrals nearly ten times in the same. The filaments above the
eyes, however, are similar to those of the species just mentioned;
quite as much developed, and each divided nearly to the base into five
or six flattened bristles. There are about forty teeth in the upper
jaw, and twenty-eight or thirty in the lower: the canine below is very
distinct, but above it is almost, if not quite wanting. The fin-ray
formula is as follows:—