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BROAD-FINNED GOBY. 



Gobius biocellatus, C 



Tnis species has much the same habits, and is found in the 

 same places as the last, with which it has been confounded, 

 and to which it bears considerable resemblance. The differences 

 will be found in the following description. It is not quite so 

 long, its greatest length being about two inches; but the fore 

 part of the body is stouter. The eye is large, a little higher 

 on the head, which is flat. Jaws about equal. Scales on the 

 body large for the size of the fish. The dorsal fins are rather 

 closer together; but what is to be particularly noted is the high 

 elevation of the second dorsal fin, and the great length of 

 the hinder rays, which, when laid on the back, overlap the 

 root of the tail. The first ray of the first dorsal highest, 

 seven in all; in the second dorsal twelve, as is also in the anal 

 fin; upper rays of the pectoral longest, supposed eighteen rays; 

 ventrals wide, fan-shaped, with ten rays; tail round, with 

 thirteen rays. 



The general colour is brown, with a tinge of pink, speckled 

 along the sides with white tinged with purple. Two ocellated 

 spots, as in the Two-Spotted Goby Dorsal fins and tail on 

 a ground of pink have lines of faint white which decline as 

 they pass backward. The cheeks yellow; belly white. In one 

 example the anal fin was almost as wide as the second dorsal. 



