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Eleotris. 

 Eleotris, Bloch k Schneider, Sjst. Ichth. p. 65, 1801. 

 Cidius, Bleeker, Nederl. Ind. JSTat. Tijdschr. xi. 1856, 

 Body stout, compressed posteriorly, the back broad and flat. 

 Head large, wider than deep, depressed. Mouth large and 

 oblique, the maxillary reaching beyond the front margin of the 

 eye; lower jaw the longer. Jaws with a band of villiform teeth, 

 the outer and inner series enlarged and conical. Nostrils widely 

 separated, the anterior with a raised rim. Eyes supero-lateral. 

 A concealed spine at the angle of the preopercle. Gill-openings 

 rather narrow, scarcely extending to below the angle of the pre- 

 opercle; six branchiostegals. Two dorsal fins, the first with six 

 flexible spines, the second with i 8-12 rays; anal with i 7-12 rays, 

 originating behind the second dorsal; ventral inserted behind the 

 base of the pectoral with i 5 rays; pectoral subcuneiform, with 18 

 or more rays, the middle ones the longest; caudal rounded, the 

 peduncle strong and deep. G-enital papilla large, sexually dis- 

 similar. Scales small, in 40 to 70 regular series, cycloid in 

 front, ciliated behind; head except the snout and the anterior 

 portion of the cheeks scaly. Vertebrae 25 or 26. 

 Etymology : — ^\e6s, bewildered. 

 Type : — Gobius pisonis, Gmelin. 



Distribution : — Tropical and subtropical parts of the 

 Indian and Pacific Oceans, and of the Americas. 



Eleotris fuscus. 



Poecilia fusca, Bloch &, Schneider, Syst. Ichth. p. 453, 1801. 



Eleotris nigra, Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool. p. 259, pi. 

 Ix. f. 2, 1824. 



Eleotris fusca, Giinther, Catal. Fish. iii. p. 125, 1861, and 

 Eisch. Sudsee, ii. p. 188, 1876, and Ann. k Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (3) XX. 1867, p. 62, and Voy. Challenger, Shore Fish, 

 pp. 35, 58, 60, 1880; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, V. 1881, p. 623. 



