Crossword-Solution: GOBIUS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Gudgeon.] (Zoöl.) Defn: One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.

Other animals, more respectful of property, avoid using another's dwelling until it is abandoned by its proprietor, and no reproach of indelicacy can be addressed to the _Gobius minutus_, a fish which lives on our coasts at the mouth of rivers.

Divers (as the old Romans) began with a few crops of rue, as the Venetians did with the fish called gobius; the Belgæs with butter, or (as we do yet also) with butter and eggs upon fish days.

This is the case as regards the little fish (_Gobius alcockii_), one of the smallest of the vertebrates (length about 1/2 inch), which lays its eggs in the patent oscula, thus securing for them a situation peculiarly favourable to their development owing to the constant current of water that passes over them.

The gobies (_Gobius_) are small fishes readily recognized by their ventrals (the fins on the lower surface of the chest) being united into one fin, forming a suctorial disk, by which these fishes are enabled to attach themselves in every possible position to a rock or other firm substances.