104. GOCIID.E — GOBIOXELLUS. 635 



Brazos Sautiago, Tex. {Girard.) Like the i)receding', a dubious species, 

 wliicli may not belong to this genus. 



(Girard, U. S. Mex. Bouud. 8urv. Iclilli. 1859, 25.) 



Art. Pectoral with its upper rays uormai, simple, or nearly so; scales large. {Cory- 

 phoptcrus* Gill.) 



988. G. g-BaticoCraeBaiBm (Gill) J. ct G. 



Tawny, ^^ ith a faint bbie sjjot in the center of each scale, and with 6 

 spots, each formed by aggregation of dark dots, on the ridge of the 

 back between the second dorsal si)ine and the axil of the soft dorsal 

 fin; another row of similar but fainter spots runs from the scapular 

 region, and a third row along the middle of the sides; head tawny, 

 with dark spots and blue dots; a straight blue line across the cheeks; 

 dorsal fins with faint blue spots. Body robust, compressed; head 

 naked; mouth oblique, the lower jaw slightly projecting, the maxil- 

 laries extending to below pu])il; teeth long, in many series, the outer 

 curved; scales ctenoid, large. Pectoral fin with the upper rays little 

 branched, not silk-like; cheeks scarcely tumid; caudal and pectoral 

 longer than ventrals, about as long as head. Head 3^; depth 4^. D. 

 VI-10; A. I, 9; P. 18; Lat. 1. 25; 1. transv. 7. L. 1.^ inches. Coast of 

 Washington Territory. {Gill.) The original type is now lost, and the 

 si)ecies has not been rediscovered. 



{Coryphoptcrus gJaucofra;num Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 2o3.) 



345.— G®Bao:^EI.I.US Girard. 

 Emcrald-fislies. 



{Smara{/(lu8 Poey.) 

 (Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliihi. 18.")8, 168: type Gohius lanccolutus BIocli.) 



Body extremely long and slender, the depth contained more than 

 six times in the length to base of caudal. Scales small, ctenoid. ITead 

 not depressed, obtuse-convex, scaly above; cheeks and opercles naked; 

 no barbels. Teeth small, in narrow bands, those in the outer row in 

 the lower jaw setaceous, movable, in the upper jaw somewhat larger, 

 fixed; no canines; lower jaw thin and fiat. Dorsal with G spines; soft 

 dorsal and anal many-rayed; caudal lanceolate. "Base of the tongue 

 tuberculate, and shining with bright blue and green reflections, like a 

 a precious stone" (hence the names Smaragdus, Esmeralda^ etc.). Ver- 

 tebraj elongate, 11 + 15. (A diminutive of Gohius.) 



"Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 262: type Coryphoptcrun ghuicofrccn iim Gill. 

 {j opvil'V, suinruit; TCrepov, fiu.) 



