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pelvics I, 5; the inner rays longest; about 9 or 10 branched rays in 



caudal fin (Kuaemekinae) '^ 



8a. Pectoral rays 3 or 4 ; dorsal rays 19 or 20; anal 13 or 14. 



Kraemeria bryani Schultz " 

 86. Pectoral rays 7 or 8; dorsal rays 19 or 20; anal 14 or 15. 



Kraemeria samoensis Steindachner 



76. Body fully scaled, although scales may be minute on ParagoVioides, in 



which case dorsal rays number about 60 ; tongue not bilobed but rounded 



or pointed. 



Off. Gill membranes not widely joined to the isthmus but free forward, 



gill opening not restricted to sides (Trichonotinae) 



10a. First one or two anterior i*ays of dorsal long and filamentous ; inner 

 rays of pelvics long and filamentous. 



Trichonotus ^ Bloch ; Taeniolabrus ^ Steindachner 

 106. First rays of dorsal and last rays of pelvics not elongate or 



filamentous Hemerocoetes ^^ Cuvier and Valenciennes ; 



Creedia ^ Ogilby ; Lesueurina ^^ Fowler ; Squamicreedia " Rendahl 

 96. Gill membranes broadly joined to the isthmus, the gill opening mostly 

 restricted to the sides : dorsal rays 60 ; anal 37 ; pectoral 14 or 15 ; 

 pelvics ? I, 4; scales minute not visible on young; no lateral line; 

 anus under the 2rith dorsal ray; 11 branched rays in caudal fin (15 

 jointed rays) (Paraoobioidinae). 



Paragobioides ^ Kendall and Goldsborough 



CHALIXODYTES, new genus 



This new genus is recognized from other closely related genera in the 

 key on page 261, by having I, 4 pelvic rays, a lateral line that extends 

 ventrally and meets or nearly meets its fellow behind the anal fin, 

 in combination with a row of scales along the middorsal line in front 



^Kraemeria Steindachner, Sitzb. Akacl. Wiss. Wien, vol. 115. pt. 1, p. 41, .Tuly 1906 

 (typo, Kraemeria samoensis Steindachner). 



Vitreola Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905), p. 393. Dec. 1906 (type, 

 Vitreola saf/itta Jordan and Seale, ibid, pi. 37, fi?;. 1). 



Psammichthys Regan, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, sor. 2. Zool., vol. 12, pt. 3, p. 240, 1908 

 (type, Psammichthys nudtis Regan, ibid., pi. 31, fig. 1). — Psammichthyidae Regan, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 8, p. 733, 1911. 



^ Joiirn. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 31, p. 271. 1041. 



^ Trichonotus Bloch, in Schneider, Systema iciithyologiae, p. 170, 1801 (genotype. Tricho- 

 notus seti(jer Bloch). 



Taeniolabrus Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 55, p. 73 3. 1867 (type, Taenio- 

 labrus fllamentosus Steindachner). 



Taeniolabrus marleyi Smith, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa, vol. 24, pt. 1, pp. 4-6, pis. 

 1, 2, 1936 (type locality : Durban). 



^^Hemerocoetes Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons. vol. 12, p. 311, 

 18.T7 (type, Callionymus acanthorhynchus Forstcr). 



Creedia Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 23, pt. 3, p. 298, 1898 (type, 

 Creedia clathrisquamis Ogilby) ; McCulloch, Australian Zool., vol. 2, pt. 3, p. 101, pi. 31, 

 fig. 275a, of Creedia clathrisquamis Ogilby, 11122. 



Hemerocoetes haawelli Ramsay, I'roc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 6, p. 575, 1881 

 (type locality : North Head of Port Jackson). 



Lesueurina Fowler, I'roc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1907, p. 440 [type, Lesueurina 

 platycephala Fowler (Lesneurella platycrphalus Fowler, misprint)]. 



Squamicreedia Rendahl, Sveuska Vet. Handl., vol. 61, No. 9, p. 20, 1921 (type, Squami- 

 creedia obtusa Rendahl). 



^ Paragobioides Kendall and Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Conip. Zool., vol. 26, p. 324, pi. 6. 

 fig. 2, 1911 (type, Paragobioides grandoculis Kendall and Goldsborough). — Fowler, Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia Monogr. No. 2, pp. 206-207, 1938. 



