104. GOBIID.E LEPIDOGOBIUS. 
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coast of United States, extremely abundant southward. It lives in 
sliallow creeks and lagoons, where it fills the bottoms with holes and 
tunnels. 
(Cooiier, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1SG3, 111.) 
317,— l.EFSI>OCi©I5Ii:iS Gill. 
{Ctjdngohius Steindacliuer. ) 
(Gill, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1859, 14: type Gobius gracilis Grd.) 
Scales small, cycloid; dorsal spines 7 or 8; otherwise essentially as 
in Gohius. Pacific Ocean. scaly; Gohiiis.) 
a. Head scaly. (Lepidogohius.) 
991. t,. g'raciSas (Grd.) Gill. 
Very pale olive, with roundish blotches of rusty red on back and 
sides; vertical fins mottled with reddish; distal half of all fins and 
under side of head blackish, especially in the males. P>ody elongate, 
long and low, little compressed, covered with thin, smooth, half-im- 
bedded scales. Head scaly above and on cheeks and oitercles; mouth 
oblhpie; jaws equal; maxillai'y extending to below middle of eye. 
Teeth in rather broad bands, the outer teeth enlarged, especially in 
upper jaw; outer teeth in lower jaw somewhat movable. Eyes large, 
placed high, the interocular space very narrow; opercle adnate to scapu- 
lar arch from upper edge of i>ectoral upward. Fins rather high, the 
dorsal spines slender, flexible and exserted at tip; pectorals short, not 
reaching so far as tips of ventrals; ventrals inserted slightly behind 
axil of pectorals; basal sheath of ventrals large. Head 4; depth Gb 
D. YII-IS; A. 15. L. 5 inches. Pacific coast of United States; com- 
mon northward, in rather deep water. • 
{Gohius gracilis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1854, 134, not of Jenyns: Gobius 
lepidus Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Snrr. Fish. 127 : Gobius lepidus Gunther, iii, 78.) 
aa. Head naked. (Eucijclogobius* Gill.) 
992. lu. BievvSses’ryi (Grd.) Gill. 
Olivaceous, mottled with darker; spinous dorsal and anal tipped with 
dusky; second dorsal and caudal checkered; pectorals transxiareut; 
head with some dusky markings. Body short, chubby, little com- 
*Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1832, 330: type Gobius newberrgi Grd. “The 
genus Eucjjclogobius is very distinct from Lepidogobius, differing especially in the 
robust, snbfnsifonn body, the size and position of the eyes, wider forehead, shape of 
jaws, and especially the position of the ventral fins.” (Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila. 1863, 234.) {ev, well; xvxXo?, cycloid; Gobius.) 
