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the Carribean, having been found bythe BldkeaA station olxxvi, on theAlacran Shoals, at 

 a depth of 35 fathoms, and a1 station xvxiv. off Granada, ;it ;i depth of 92 fathoms; also by 

 the Albatross at station 2417, in 33 L8'30" N. [at., 77 07' W. Inn., at a depth of 95 fathoms; 



at station 2418, in 33 20' N. [at., 77 05' W. [on., at a depth of 90 fat] s;a1 station 2121-2 



ai a depth of from 31 to 34 fathoms; and at station 2122, in 10 • ! 7' X. hit., <»1 11 22" W. 

 Ion., at a depth of 34 fathoms. 



(»ne individual lot (2121-2) correspond, in their dull coloration with /'. porosissimus as 

 described by Gunther. The others are nil colored in the manner described tor P.plectrodon, 

 Giinther. 



Thalassophryne maculosa, Gunther, has been found al a depth of 42 fathoms, and pos- 

 sibly occurs at a si ill greater depth. 



Family GOBIIDyE. 



Le» GoKoides, Cuvier, Re^ne Animal, ed. i. 1817, n. 249; ed. L'. 1829, n. 236. 



Gobiidw, Bonaparte, Saggio, 1832,35; Iron. Faun, [tal., [ntrod. ; Cat. Metodico, 1846, 63. — Swainson, Nat. 



Hist, fisln-s. etc., 1839, 183, 278.— -GWnther, Cut. Fish. Brit. Mub., hi, 1.— Gill, Air. Fam. Fish., Is7i\ <; 



(No. 52); Century Dictionaiy, 2560. 

 Gohioidei, Bi.eeker, Tentamen, 1859, 24. 



Body stout, usually tapering from head to tail, sometimes more elongated, ovate, com- 

 pressed. Scales diversiform, ctenoid, cycloid, or wanting. No lateral line. Generally two 

 spinigerous dorsal fins, sometimes united in one. Ventrals thoracic (normally i, 5), usually 

 contributing to form a ventral sucker. An anal papilla. 



GOBIUS, Cuvier. 



Gobius, Cuvier, Regne Animal. — GOnther, (in part), Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., in, 3. — Jordan ami Cilrert, 

 Bull. xvi. r. s. Nat. Mus., i;:«. 



Body more or less elongate, compressed behind. Eyes high, close together. Mouth 

 moderate. Teeth conical, on jaws only, in several series, those in outer row larger. Isthmus 

 broad. Scales ctenoid; cheeks usually, and belly sometimes, naked. Dorsal usually with 

 li spines. Pectorals large. Ventrals completely united. Caudal tin obtuse. 



Gobius eometes, Alcock (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.. L889, u, 208, pi. vm, tig. 2), occurs 

 below the hundred-fathom line in the Bay of Bengal, about 350 specimens having been taken 

 at Investigator station No. 90. 



GOBIUS LESUEURII, Risso. 



iioliiii* Lesueurii, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Mend., nr. 1829, 284.— Cuvter and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 xii, 33.— Bonaparte, Cat. Met., No. 5(17.— Gon henot, Exp. Alger. Poissons, 77. — GOnther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus.. in, 12.— Canestrini, Arch. Zool., i, 143, pi. viii, fig. 2; Pesci d'ltalia, 174. — Vaillant, Exp. 

 Sci. Travailleur et Talisman, 340. — Moreau, Hist. Nat. Poiss. France, a, 219. 

 A Gobius, with a low first dorsal composed of <i fays, with orbital diameter greater 

 than width of iuterorbital space, with 14 rays in second dorsal, and caudal lanceolate and 

 a little longer than head, and with lateral line of about 26-27 scales. 

 I.'adial formula: D. VI, I, 14; A. I, 14. 



This species, rare in the Mediterranean, where ii has occasionally been found near Nice, 

 was obtained bythe Travailleur oil' Villefranche, in 145 fathoms. It was also found off 

 i he Canaries in SO, and oil' .Morocco in 112 fathoms. 



Family CALLIONYMID^E. 



Callionymini, Bonaparte, Saggio, etc., 1831. 



Callionymince, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., etc., n. 1839, l v ::. 



Callionymidce, Bonaparte, Catalogo Metodico, 1846, 69. Gill, Ait. Fam. Fish., 1872, 6 (No. 51). 



Callionymoidei, Bl l eker, Tentamen, 1859, xxiv. 



Callionymina, GOnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus.. in. l:;s. 



Gobioid lishes with two separate dorsal fins, and with the ventrals widely separated. 



