Date: Sunday f 20, 2012
Jago's Goldsinny Sea Fish
In the west of England this is a common species, and in many districts besides it is so also, although the individuals are not in considerable numbers. It occurs along the coasts of Scotland, as well as in the Baltic. Nilsson reckons it among the fishes of Sweden, and on the other hand it is met with in the Mediterranean.
Unlike the Corkwing, I have not found it to frequent tidal harbours, and it appears to prefer deeper water than the shallows of the sea afford. It takes a bait, but is most frequently caught in the crab pots, which it enters for the purpose of nibbling the baits suspended within them. It is probable it sheds its roe in May, as the Kock Cook is also known to do.
Its usual length is about five inches, with a depth of an inch and a quarter at the ventral fins, from the front of the dorsal fin the outline slopes gradually to the upper lip, jaws equal, teeth prominent, eye rather large. The body covered with large scales, gill covers with scales of smaller size, lateral line suddenly bent down a little behind the termination of the dorsal fin, of this fin the rays are twenty six, of which seventeen are firm and tipped, anal fin with three firm ravs.
The colour of this species is confessedly prone to vary, while the spots are believed to constitute a constant character. In the example described the upper portion was reddish brown, cheeks red, yellowish posteriorly, and a deep pink lengthened spot at some distance below the eye, which is likely to be accidental, the borders of the scales tinged with pink, which on the sides give the appearance of faint pink lines, pectoral.
dorsal, and caudal fins inclined to red. The front of the dorsal bears a dark mark, which extends to three or four of the rays, at the upper border of the base of the tail is a round or oval spot, which may rather be said to be on each side of the edge than exactly on the top, a pink spot close to the upper part of the base of the pectoral.
This species of Wrass remained long in a state of uncertainty, from having been confounded with such others of the Labridce as had their chief marks of distinction in a spot at or near the root of the tail. There is in these also a remarkable diiference in these fishes, and the broad bands from the back downward, as in Mr. Selby's figure, have never presented themselves in a Cornish, nor I may add, in an Irish example.
On the contrary, I have had occasion to mention the pink- tinted horizontal lines on the sides, which have also been noticed in Irish specimens, but not in those of the north of England. How far these differences may be explained by reference to the variety of ground and climate in which the individuals are found, is a subject for further inquiry, and this observation is the more appropriate, as, according to Dr. Gunther, who quotes the work on Ichthyology by Cuvier, there is a species with which it might be confounded.
This is the Ctenolabrus marginatus, which is a native of the Medi- terranean, and of a more lengthened form than this C. rupestris, with the same number of fin rays, and a large black spot anteriorly on the dorsal fin, and another on each side of the caudal fin, the vertical fins with a narrow blackish margin.
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