Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 2209 



with 2 bands parallel with its upper margin; second dorsal with 3 nar- 

 row longitudinal bands. (Gill.) Fresh waters of Trinidad and Surinam ; 

 not seen by us. (brevis, short; -ceps, head.) 



EvoHhodus breviceps, Gill, Proc.Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1859, 195, Trinidad ; JORDAN & ElGEN- 

 MANN, I.e., 486. 



8i2. LOPHOGOBIUS, Gill. 



(Crested Gobies.) 



Lo2)hogobius, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 240 {cngtagalli=cyprinoides) . 



Dorsal spines 6; scales evidently ctenoid. Body short, compressed, form 

 much as in X'ormfteior; nape with fleshy crest; scales large. Vertebrte 

 11 + 15. Interorbital area of cranium anteriorlv elevated, with a large 

 foramen-like depression in front of eye. One species, differing consider- 

 ably in form from the other Gobies. The study of its skeleton shows no 

 distinction of much importance unless the peculiar form of its interorbital 

 area be regarded as such. {X6<l>o?, crest; Gobius.) 



2.535. LOPHOGOBIUS CYPRINOIDES (Pallas). 



Head 3| ; depth 3^; greatest width .5^ to 6+. U. VI or VII-10 or 11 ; A. 

 9 or 10 ; scales 26 to 30 ; vertebne 11 -f 15 ; eye 3^ to 4. Body short and deep, 

 little compressed, formed much as in Cyprinodou ; head naked, a prominent 

 naked dermal crest extending from above middle of eye to near front of 

 spinous dorsal; interorbital width slightly less than diameter of eye; 

 profile convex ; snout short, bluntish, about as long as eye ; mouth very 

 oblique, the gape slightly curved ; front of upper lip on level of lower 

 border of eye; lower jaw somewhat projecting; teeth in both jaws in 

 bands, the outer series erect and somewhat enlarged, those of the inner 

 series small; scales large, reduced on breast and nape; a few scales on 

 tipper part of opercle; median line before dorsal naked; dorsal spines 

 produced in short filaments; last rays of soft dorsal reaching caudal; 

 caudal rounded; pectorals lanceolate, reaching beyond insertion of anal, 

 the upper rays not silk-like; skull very broad and short, with low, 

 median crest, highest behind; double crests of temporal region joining 

 at the upper posterior angles of the eyes and forming a bridge over the 

 interorbital area, the crests ending abruptly above the anterior part of 

 the orbit, forming a decided angle, the bridged interorbital leaving a 

 large foramen in front of this angle. Color blackish green in life; spinous 

 dorsal black ; soft dorsal, ventrals, and anal dark, plain ; pectorals lightish, 

 plain; caudal finely mottled. Length 2 inches. West Indies, north to 

 southern Florida ; generally common in the streams and brackish waters 

 of Cuba and other islands. Recently taken by Dr. Evermann in brackish 

 water at Biscayne Bay, Florida, (nvrtplvog, carp; siSog, resemblance.) 



Oobius cyprinoides, Pallas, Spicilegia, Zool., \aii, 17, pi. 1, &g. 5, 1770, Amboina ; Cin'iEE & 

 Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, 129, 1837 ; Gunther, Cat. Fish., in, 8, 1861. 



Oobius cristarjalU, Valenciennes, in Cuviee Sz. Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, 130, 

 1837, Havana ; Guichenot, in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 128, pi. 3, tig. 3, 1850. 



Lophogobius cyprinoides, PoEY, Repertorio, I, 335, 1867; POEY, Synopsis, 393, 1868; PoEY, 

 Eiiuraeratio, 125, 1876; Jordan & Eiqenjiann, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 487; EVKB- 

 MANN & Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1897, 131, plate 9, fig. 13. 



