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QO BPLOGLOUGICAL FOURNAL 
Vou. I. MAY, 1890. No. 3. 
THE POINT LOMA BLIND FISH AND ITS RELATIVES. 
With Plate II and III. 
BY CARL H. EIGENMANN. 
San Diego Bay is in part surrounded by mud flats which are 
covered by water at high tide. Where the channel approaches the 
shores, sand beaches take the place of mud flats. On the ocean 
shores a sandy beach stretches several miles to the southeast from 
the mouth of the bay, while on the west rises the point of land 
called Point Loma. The entire ocean beach at the base of this prom- 
ontory is rocky. In many places all the earth has been removed 
by the action of the waves, leaving the bare rock; in other places, 
and more especially between the outer point and Ballast Point, large 
boulders lie imbedded in the sand. These are all covered at high 
tide, while but a few small pools remain about the rocks at low tide. 
Many of them are covered with sea weeds, actineans, and especially 
~ large chitons. . 
All these localities are inhabited by relatives of the Point Loma 
blind fish. 
The sloughs traversing the mud flats of the bay are inhabited by 
Gillichthys mirabilis, the young of which is represented i in fig. 15, 
pl. iii. 
In every tide-pool as large as a man’s hand, and larger, in the 
mud flats are found C/levelandias, fig. 4, pl. ii; nearer low-water _ 
mark in similar localities are found, but less abundant than Cleve- oe : 
landia, the Lepidogobius y-cauda represented in fig. 5, pl. ii. 
On digging in the sandy beaches of the bay specimens of another 
species of this genus, Lepidogobius gilbert, are sometimes yee. - 
_ buried in the sand. Pee 
In the crab holes under the rocks about Point tami occurs ithe s 
- most remarkable of this family, the Point Loma blind fish C Lee I 
a cee alt ee ): figs. 6 and 7, Pe iii, 
