DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GOBY, GARMANNIA SPONGICOLA 

 FROM NORTH CAROLINA. 



By Lewis Radcliffe, 



Scientific Assistant, United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



Along the coast of North Carolina south of Cape Hatteras, there 

 are a number of fishing banks^ similar in character to those located 

 off Charleston, South Carolina. The largest of these lies about 

 21 miles south by west | west of the beU buoy at the entrance to 

 Beaufort, North Carolina, harbor in ISJ to 15 fathoms of water. The 

 bottom is hard and rocky in places and supports a growth of corals, 

 sponges, and marine plants. The organisms found here are in the 

 main characteristic of warmer, southern waters, the faima bearing a 

 marked similarity to that of the snapper banks off Pennsacola and 

 Tampa, Florida. 



The small species of goby described herein was taken in the course 

 of an investigation of these grounds by the United States Fisheries 

 Steamer Fish Hawk in August and September, 1914. It inhabits the 

 cavitirs of large cuplike sponges. 



GARMANNIA SPONGICOLA Kadcliffe, new species. 



Dorsal VI-13; anal 11; body naked except for a small patch of 

 large, strongly ctenoid scales about 22 in number on lower side and 

 ventral surface of caudal peduncle; body long, slender, compressed 

 posteriorly; depth 6.4 in standard length, 7.7 in total length; head 

 long, slender, pointed 4.5 in standard length, 5.3 in total length; 

 cheeks tumid; eye small, 6.9 in head, subdorsal; interocular space 

 narrow, slightly concave, equal to diameter of eye; snout short, 

 pointed, 4.1 in head; mouth large, slightly oblique, lower jaw in- 

 cluded; maxillary long, 2.6 in head, extending beyond vertical from 

 posterior margin of eye ; teeth small, viUiform ; those in front of each 

 jaw in several rows, imequal in size, longer ones recurved, caninelike; 

 teeth on sides of jaws in a single row, gradually decreasing in size 

 toward angles of mouth; several small, recurved caninelike teeth 

 on imderside of anterior margin of lower jaw. 



1 The Offshore Fishing Grounds of North Carolina, by Lewis Radcliffe. Economic Circular No. 8 of 

 the Bureau of Fisheries, issued Feb. 25, 1914. 



PROCEEDING, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, VOL. 52-N0.2I85. 



