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Panu/ohiodoH, Bleeker, Ned. Tijdsclir. Dieilc, iv., 1S7:{, p. 129 ((Itihins 

 echinocephdhii^, Ruppell)i*\ Id., Bleekei-, Arcli. Nt'eil. Sci. Nat., ix., 

 1874, p. 309. id., Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 

 1906, p. 39G. 



Form short and compressed, liead subglobular. Body with large 

 ctenoid scales. Head naked, with papilla) or sette ; some large open 

 pores on the upper surface of the head, behind the eye and preopercular 

 margin. Snout rounded, jaws snbequal, mouth very oblique ; nostrils in 

 short tubes ; no barbies. A band of villiform teetli in each jaw, and an 

 outer row of enlarged teetli ; mandible with a curved canine on each side 

 of the sympliysis ; palate toothless. Tongue rounded, free anteriorly. 

 Gill-openings lateral, isthmus very broad. Exposed edge of shoukler- 

 girdle a smootli ridge. Pseudobranchise present ; gill-rakers few, short 

 and spinate. Dorsal with about vi/10 rays, short and rounded ; anal 

 similar to second dorsal, with about 10 rays. Pectorals large, without free 

 rays. Veutrals united, cup-shaped, with i/5 rays. Caudal rounded. 



Paragoi'.iodon echinocephalds, liilpitell. 



(Plate xxxiv., fig. 1.) 



Gohius echinoceplialmt, Riippell, Atlas Fische Roth. Meers, 1828, p. 136, 

 pi. xxxiv., fig. 3, and Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1838, p. 138. Id., 

 Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 1837, p. 134. Id., 

 Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 34, and Fische Siidsee, 

 vi., 1877, p. 175, pi. cviii., fig. d. Id., Klunzinger, Verb. Zool. Bot. 

 Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 475. 



Gobius amiciensis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii., 1837, p. 

 135. Id., Gunther, Biit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 35. Id., 

 Sauvage, Poiss. Madagascar, 1891, p. 352, pi. xii. 



Gohius xanlhosoma, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, iii., 1852, p. 703. 

 Id., Gunther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 42. 



Gohius melanosomn, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, iii., 1852, p. 703. 

 Id., Peters, Monatsbi'. Ak. Berlin, 1868, p. 265. Id., Day, Fish. 

 India, 1876, p. 297, pi. Ixiv., fig. I. 



Gohius gohiodon, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1869, p. 516. 



Gohius gihhostis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 601. 



Gobius scahriceps, Macleay, Loc. cit., p. 603. 



Gobius vHiitii, Garnian, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix., 1903, p. 234, pi. 

 iii., fig. 3. 



Paragohiodon echiiiocephalus, Bleeker, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk., iv., 1873, 

 p. 129, and Veih. Akad. Amsterdam, xviii., 1879, p. 17. Id., Jordan 

 & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 1906, p. 397. 



Paragohiodon xauthosomus, Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., xiii., 1878, p. 

 54. Id., Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 1906, p. 397. 



18 Fide Weber & de Beaufort— Fish. ludo-Austr. Arch., i., 1911, p. 289. 



