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GOBIAD.E. 



dually botli in thickness as well as depth from the shoulder 

 to the end of the tail. The colour is pale brown ; the 

 dorsal fin, upper surface and sides, mottled, and banded 

 with darker brown ; the under part of the head, pectoral 

 fins, belly, and anal fin, uniform pale brown. The lateral 

 line traverses the centre of the body, slightly elevated only 

 as it approaches the anterior third of the fish. The surface 

 of the body appears, under a lens, to be studded with cir- 

 cular depressions. 



When boiled the bones of this fish are green, and hence 

 its name of Greenbone. 



