52 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISIIES, 



The distance of the posterior margin of the operculum from 

 the root of the pectoral is somewhat less than its distance from 

 the anterior margin of the orbit. A black streak runs from the 

 snout, through the eye and the base of the pectoral fin, along the 

 lower edge of the dorsal cuirass ; it is double between the eye 

 and the gill-opening, and undulated along the side. 



Cape York. 



Division XIV. AOANTH. GOBIESOCIFOKMES. 



No spinous dorsal, the soft dorsal and anal fins short, or of 

 moderate length, situated on the tail ; ventral fins subjugular, 

 with or without an adhesive apparatus between them. 



Family XXXV. GOBIESOCIDJE. 



Body rather elongate, anteriorly depressed, naked. Teeth 

 conical, compressed. A single dorsal fin on the tail without spinous 

 portion ; anal short ; ventrals widely apart with one spine hidden 

 in the skin and four or five rays. Between the ventrals is a large 

 adhesive apparatus, the posterior portion of which is suspended 

 on the coracoid bones, which are partly free, in the axil of the 

 pectoral fins. Three or three and a-half gills. No air-bladder ; 

 intestinal tract short, wide, without pyloric appendages. Skeleton 

 firm. Vert. 13-14/13-22. 



Genus Cretidogaster, Gunth. 



Anterior part of the body depressed ; snout produced, much 

 depressed. Dorsal fin situated on the tail. Posterior portion of 

 the adhesive disk with the anterior margin free. Villiform teeth 

 in both jaws without incisors. Gills three ; pseudobranchia) 

 none or rudimentary ; gill membranes united under the throat 

 and not attached to the isthmus. 



Australia and Tasmania. 



