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36. Lateral line concavely curved downward behind pectoral fin, separated 

 by 4 to 8 scales from base of second spiny dorsal fin, thence con- 

 tinuing along midlengthwise axis of body, the last scales sometimes 



notched posteriorly Helcogramma McCuUoch and Waite 



16. First dorsal of III or IV spines, separated from following spines by a notably 

 wider than usual space, but membrane continuous, forming a single 

 spiny dorsal fin; no cirri on eye or on nape; dorsal rays about III, XIV- 

 12; anal 11,17; head naked, about 7 scales in a row from lateral line to 

 middle of base of spiny dorsal; lateral line curving downward behind 

 pectoral fin, thence extending along midlengthwise axis of body. 



Lepidoblennius *^ Steindachner 



Genus TRIPTERYGION Risso 



Tripterygion Risso, Histoire naturelle des principales productiones de I'Europe 

 Meridionale . . . , vol, 3, p. 241, 1826 (type species, Tripterygion nasus 

 Kisso '= Blennius tripteronotus Risso 1810). 



Enncapterygius RtJppELL, neue Wirbethiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehorlg, 

 Fische, p. 2, pi. 1, fig. 2, 1835 (type species, Enneapterygius pusillus Rtippell). 



Enneanecies Jordan and Evermann in Jordan, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 

 2, vol. 5, p. 501, pi. 53, 1895 (type species, on pi. 53, "Enneanectes carminalis" 

 not of Jordan and Gilbert = (?i7/zas sexmaculatus Fowler 1941; Tripicrygium 

 carminale Jordan and Gilbert, holotype USNM 120946, was found by me 

 with the types of Gobiesox zebra in 1944 and belongs to the genus Helco- 

 gramma, as indicated in this study). 



Gillias Evermann and Marsh, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish., vol. 25 (1899), p. 357, 

 1900 (type species, Gillias j or dani Evermann and Marsh). 



Trianectes McCulloch and Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus. vol. 1, No. 1, 

 p. 53, 1918 (type species, Trianectes bucephalus McCulloch and Vv'aite). 



Notoclinops Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus. vol. 10, No. 1, p. 20, 1930 (type 

 species, Tripterygion segmentatum McCulloch and Phillips). 



Verconectes Whitley, Australian Zool. vol. 6, No. 1, p. 324, 1931 (type species, 

 Tripterygion bucephalus McCulloch and Waite; proposed to replace Tria- 

 nectes, said by Whitley to be preoccupied but is not). 



Vauclusclla Whitley, Australian Zool. vol. 6, No. 4, p. 324, 1931 (type species, 

 Tripterygion annulatuni Ramsay and Ogilby). 



Hubbs and Springer (Bull. Marine Sci. Gulf and Caribbean, vol. 4, 

 No. 4, pp. 346-350, 1954) have determined the status of Gobioclinus 

 Gill, type species, Clinus gobio Cuvier and Valenciennes. Longley 

 (in Longley and Hildebrand, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 535, 

 p. 257, 1941) selected the Labrisomus specimen as the lectotype of 

 Clinus gobio and he considered the other four types to represent 

 Tripterygion jordani (Evermann and Marsh). Thus Gobioclinus is a 

 synonym of Labrisomus, not Tripterygion as first supposed by Clark 

 Hubbs (Stanford Ichthyol. Bull. vol. 4, No. 2, p. 102, 1952, and 

 Zoologica, New York Zool. Soc, vol. 38, p. 114, 1953). 



89 Lepidoblennius Steindachner. Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 55, p. 3, 1867 (type species, Lcpiioblenniui 

 haplodactylua Steindachner). 



