FAMILY DIODONTIDAE — WOODS 137 



tube closed at end with small opening on either side near tip; upper 

 and lower rays of pectoral longer than middle rays; dorsal and anal 

 lobate, caudal rounded. 



Color in alcohol. — Ground color of head and body whitish or yellow- 

 ish cream-colored ; snout, cheeks, top of head, back, and sides every- 

 where with numerous small round black dots, these dots much more 

 numerous than spines, dots slightly larger on sides about level of 

 dorsal fin; lips, interorbital area, and area around dorsal fin sometimes 

 light brownish; breast and belly pale white without spots, a broad 

 brown band running from below gill opening forward along lower 

 side across throat joming similar band from other side, sometunes an 

 indistinct dark bar from eye joining band below eye and sometimes 

 dark color extending forward on chin; dorsal, anal, and pectoral 

 fins with small round dots on basal half; caudal similarly spotted 

 almost to tip. 



Color in life. — The same as the preserved specimen. 



Order GOBIESOCIDA (=Xenopterygii) 

 Family GOBIESOCIDAE 

 By Leonard P. Schultz 

 Genus LIOBRANCHIA Briggs 



Liobranchia Briggs, Stanford Ichthyol. Bull., vol. 6, p. 133, 1955 (type species, 

 Liobranchia stria Briggs). 



LIOBRANCHIA STRIA Briggs 



Liobranchia stria Briggs, Stanford Ichthyol. Bull., vol. 6, p. 133, fig. 112, 1955 

 (type locality, Saipan Island). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Saipan Island: Collected by P. E. Cloud, 1 specimen, 18.3 mm. in standard 

 length (holotype, USNM 179910). 



Bikini Atoll: Lagoon reef halfway between Bikini and Amen islands, July 21, 

 1947, S-46-442, Brock, Hiatt, and Schultz, 1 specimen, 15.5 mm. 



Description. — (After Briggs.) Dorsal rays vii; anal vii; pectoral 

 xxiv; caudal viii. 



Greatest depth of body 5.0; length of head 3.2; width of head 3.7; 

 length of disc 4.2; all in standard length. Least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 1.2 in its length. Snout 3.5; eye 4.1 ; both in length of head. 

 Eye 1.1 in bony interorbital. 



Body compressed; anus shghtly closer to origin of anal fin than to 

 rear margin of disc; snout short and rounded in dorsal outline; an- 

 terior nostril simple, without a dermal flap on the margin; posterior 

 nostril in front of anterior edge of eye. Upper attachment of gUl 

 membrane opposite eighth pectoral ray. Upper attachment of axial 



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