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Genus HYPSELEOTRIS Gill 



Hijitsclrotris Gill, Proc. Acad, ^"at. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 15, p. 270, 1803. 

 (Type, Eleotris cyprinoides Cuvier and Valenciennes.) 



HYPSELEOTRIS CYPRINOIDES (Valenciennes) 



Eleotris cyprinoides Valenciennes, in Cnvier and Valenciennes, Histoire Natu- 

 relle des poissons, vol. 12, p. 2-48, 1837. 



52219, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 21 specimens. 

 52200, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



Genus ELEOTRIS Bloch 



Eleotris Bloch, in Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae . . ., p. 65, 1801. (Type, 

 Gohins pisonis Gmelin ref. copied from Jordan's "Genera of Fishes.") 



ELEOTRIS MELANOSOMA Bleeker 



Eleotris melanosoma Bleekeb, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., vol. 3, p. 705, 1852. 



116167, Tutuila Island, stream at village of Pago Pago, June 2, 1939, 12 

 specimens. 



ELEOTRIS FUSCA (Bloch) 



Poccilia fusca Bloch, in Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae . . ., p. 453, 1801. 

 (Type locality: "Oriadeae insulae rivulis".) 



55217, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 6 specimens. 



Table 28. — Counts made on specimens of Eleotris 



Genus MUCOGOBIUS McCuIIoch 



Mucogobius McClt^loch, Rec. Austr. Mus., vol. I, p. 93, 1912. (TjTie, Oobius 



niHCOsus Giinther. ) 

 Metoffobius Whitley, Austr. Zoo!., vol. 6, p. 122, 19,30. (Type, Eleotris sclateri 



Steindachner.) 



