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Suborder Gobioidei. — "Parietals lacking. Branchiostegals (4) 

 5 or 6, the first one or two well separated from the others. Mesoptery- 

 goid narrow or absent. Preopercle and symplectic widely divergent 

 above, with an interspace between them. Hypurals with a splint-like 

 bone above and below" (Gosline, 1955, p. 166). 



The Gobioidei generally have not been divided into separate super- 

 families. 



Suborder Blennioidei. — Pelvic fins, when present, inserted ahead 

 of the pectorals; dorsal and posterior soft anal rays exactly equal in 

 number to the vertebrae between them; caudal fin usually rounded. 

 (Reworded from the preceding account.) 



Superfamilies: Notothenioidae, Trachinoidae, Congrogadoidae, 

 Blennioidae, and Zoarceoidae. 



Suborder Schindlerioidae. — Minute, transparent, neotenic, 

 oceanic fishes with the last few vertebrae and the hypural fan fused 

 into a single plate. (Compiled.) 



This suborder contains only the genus Schindleria. 



