COTTUS

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A genus of spiny finned fishes; so called on account of the large size of the head. It includes two British species, viz. the Father lasher (Coitus bubalis), and the Sea Scorpion (Cottus Scorpio); both of which are dreaded by fishermen on account of the painful and dangerous wounds which they inflict by means of the spines with which the gill-covers are armed. [s. 305]