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THE SEAS
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to stones, shells and weed.
In these cases the eggs when
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rst shed are covered all over, or in certain places, with a
sticky secretion, which soon hardens
and glues the egg fast
to the stone or shell with which it may be in contact.
This
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method
is typical of many of those little shes which are so
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common in the rock pools and the tidal zone.
'lÎheblennies,
the gobies and the suckers, all fasten their eggs in little
clusters to the insides of empty shells, and under over.
hanging ledges or in_ crevices in the rocks.
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Egg of Blenny (x 25)
Egg of Goby (x 20)
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The eggs, whichare comparatively few in numher, vary
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:onsiderably in shape.
Those, for instance, of the common
blefmy are rounded or spherical, with a little disc-shaped
base that cements them to the rock, while those of the
gobies aïe elongated and attened _(Fig. 12).
It is quite a common occurrence
for these kinds of
eggs.
Not infreqæntly a bletmy (Blemæizis