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349. TYPHJLOGOBIUS Steindacliuer. 

 (Otlionops Rosa Smith.) 



(Steindachuer, Ichth. Beitriige, viii, 142, 1879: type T. californiensis Steind.) 



Body moderately elongate, compressed, covered with loose, smooth, 

 naked skin. Head large, depressed, with tumid cheeks. Mouth large, 

 the maxillary reaching to beyond the orbit; jaws equal, each with a 

 narrow baud of villiforni teeth, the outer teeth slightly enlarged; lower 

 jaw capable of little motion; snout rounded; no cirri. Eyes very small, 

 imperfect, covered by skin. Fins low; first dorsal of 2 flexible spines; 

 second dorsal moderate; anal very short; caudal rounded; ventral disk 

 asinGobius. Gill-openings rather narrow. One species known. (TO^OT, 

 blind ; Gobius.) 



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995. T. calaforEiiensis Steind. 



Bright pellucid pink in life, the upper parts somewhat speckled; top 

 of head with slight wrinkles of skin. Insertion of first dorsal midway 

 between snout and base of caudal ; insertion of anal opposite fifth ray 

 of soft dorsal; pectorals as long as caudal, extending beyond ventrals 

 to first dorsal; fin rays covered by loose skin. Eyes visible in life as 

 small dark specks, disappearing in alcohol. Head 3f ; depth 5. D. 

 II-l 1 ; A. 7 ; P. 16. L. 3 inches. San Diego, Cal. ; burrowing in sand 

 among rocks. 



(Steindachner, lekth. Beitr. viii, 142, 1879 : Othonops eos Rosa Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. 1881, 19.) 



35O. TYWTL.ASTES Giiuther. 



(Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1862, 194 : type AnMyopus sagilla Giiuther.) 



Body elongate, compressed, covered with small, imbricate, cycloid 

 scales. Head elongate, quadrangular. Mouth wide, oblique, the lower 

 jaw projecting; teeth small, in single series, none on vomer or palatines. 

 Eyes very small, or rudimentary. Dorsal fin single, continuous, about 

 6 of its anterior rays simple ; caudal fin pointed, more or less joined to 

 the dorsal and anal ; ventral fins united. Air-bladder very small or 

 absent. No pseudobranchisB. Vertebrae 11 -f 20. Pacific Ocean. 

 , a nmd-dabbler.) 



996. T. sagitta Gtinther. 



Grayish, sides and below silvery; an ovate gray spot before each 

 dorsal ray; caudal gray. Body and head elongate, compressed, the 

 length of the latter two-thirds the distance between the base of the 

 ventral and the vent. Maxillary reaching to behind eye ; teeth sub- 



