GOBIESOCID.IC. 489 



(without caudal fin). The lower prmopercular niursiu with seven or 

 eiglit large spinous teeth. Scales extremely small (L. lat. plus quam 

 300). Vertical fins contiguous. Rose-coloured. (BJ.) 

 Sea of Nagasaki. 



6. Cepola marginata. 



Kmsenstern's Reise, taf. 60. fig. 1. 

 Cepola marginata, Cuv. i^ Vnl. x. p. 402. 



Eed, minutely dotted with black ; a small oblong black spot on 

 the anterior part of the dorsal fin. 

 Sea of Japan. 



7. Cepola limbata. '*' 



Krusemterri's Reise, taf. 60. fig. 2. 

 Cepola limbata, Cut: l^- Val. x. p. 402. 



Reddish, with red spots posteriorly. An ovate black spot on the 

 anterior part of the dorsal fin. 

 Sea of Japan. 



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Fam. 42. GOBIESOCID^. 



Discoboli, part., Cuv. Rit/ne Anim, ; 3Tdller, Beti. Abhandl. 1844, 



p._158. 

 Gobiidae, part., Owen, Led. Comp. Anat. i. p. 49. 

 Gobiesocioidei, part., Bleek. Enum. Spec. p. xxvi. 



Body rather elongate, anteriorly depressed, naked. Teeth conical 

 or compressed. A single dorsal fin on the tail, -without spinous por- 

 tion ; anal short ; ventrals widely apart from each other, with one 

 spine hidden in the skin and four (five) rays. A large adhesive 

 apparatus between them, the posterior portion of which is suspended 

 on the coracoid bones, which are partly free, in the axil of the pectoral 

 fins. Three gills or three and a half. Air-bladder absent. Intestinal 

 tract short, wide, without pyloric appendages. Skeleton firm ; ver- 



Carnivorous fishes. Most of the species live in the seas of the 

 temperate regions of both hemispheres ; two are known to inhabit 

 seas between the tropics. 



The structure of the adhesive apparatus, by which these fishes so 

 greatly difier from the tnie Discoboli, is described under Sicyases 

 sanguineus. For anatomical details see the single species, and espe- 

 cially Oohiesox cephalus. 



