FAMILY XL PCECILIID^E. 115 



104. Zoogoneticus miniatus Meek. 



Zoogoneticus miniatus Meek, Field Col. Mus. Pub. 65, 1902, 94; 



Chalco. 

 Vallev of Mexico. 



FIG. 33. .ZOOGONETICUS MINIATUS Meek. 



No. 3680. Field Columbian Museum. 



Head 3^; depth 3%', D. 17; A. 14; scales 14-32. Body elongate, 

 compressed ; head rather narrow, interorbital width 3 in head ; mouth 

 rather large; lower jaw slightly the longer; teeth conical .in a band, 

 the outer series being the larger; snout 4^ m head; eye 2^3 in head; 

 dorsal fin slightly in advance of anal, its origin midway between base 

 of caudal fin and the middle of preopercle; intestinal canal short, 

 about as long as oody. i 



Color olivaceous, much mottled with darker; no distinct lateral 

 band; sides with irregular dark blotches, the last one forming an 

 indistinct black caudal spot. Length about i^ inches. Known only 

 from the type locality. 



47. G-irarcliiiichthys Bleeker. 



Girardinichthys Bleeker, Cyprin., 481,1860. (Type,Girardinichthys 

 innominatus Bleeker.) 



Limnurgus Giinther, Cat., vi, 309, 1866. (Type, Limnurgus varie- 

 gatus Giinther = Girardinichthys innominatus Bleeker.) 



Body robust; mouth small, its cleft nearly vertical; teeth small, 

 pointed, in one or more series in each jaw; dorsal and anal fins long, 

 the former slightly in advance of the latter; intestinal canal on left 

 side, not coiled, about the length of the body; peritoneum spotted, 

 not wholly black; gill membranes partly united, free from the isthmus; 

 anal fin of the male with its first 6 to 8 rays short and stiff and sepa- 

 rated from the rest of the fin by a shallow notch; viviparous. 



