4. GODIESOX. 4!)!> 



lead into two exceedingly large urine-bladders, which arc contracted 

 posteriorly and pass into a, cloaca. When the fish is compressed, the 

 urine spouts forth with great force. 



The fish examined was more than a foot in length, bu<- is said 

 to attain to a much greater size. It was taken on the coast of 

 Kamtschatka. 



h. Cyclopterus stelleri, Pall. 



Cyclopterus stelleri, Pall, Zoofjr. Rosso-Asiat. iii. p. 73. 



Pallas gives the following particulars from the MS, of SteUcr. . It 

 is, probably, the type of a distinct genus : — 



Body ovate, smooth ; a single series of osseous tubercles along the 

 middle of the back to the origin of the dorsal fin. Teeth small, un- 

 equal. Eranchiostegals six. GiU-opening reduced to a round fora- 

 men. The dorsal fin commences on the middle of the back and ex- 

 tends nearly to the origin of the caudal fin. " Pinna) postbranchiales 

 [coracoids?] pectoraUbus aliquanto altiores ; pinna) pcctorales aceta- 

 bulum utrinque ambiunt." The anal terminates in the vertical from 

 the extremity of the dorsal fin. 



Peter and Paul's Harbour. 



4. GOBIESOX. 



Gobiesox, Lac(^. ii. p. 595. 



Cotylis, pt., Mull. 8f Trosch. I. c. 



Gobiesox, Tomicodon, pt., et Sicyogaster, Bris. de Barnev. I. c. 



Anterior part of the body very broad and depressed ; skin tough. 

 Snout very obtuse. Dorsal fin short, situated on the tail. Posterior 

 portion of the adhesive disk without free anterior margin. Distinct 

 incisors in the lower jaw; those of the upper jaw are in several 

 series, and the anterior ones sometimes compressed. Gills three ; 

 pseudobranchia) rudimentarj'- ; giU-membranes united under the 

 throat and not attached to the isthmus. 



Caribbean Sea. Western coasts of South America. 



1. Gobiesox cephalus. 



Gobiesox cephalus, iac<?p. ii. p. 595 ; Bris. deBaniev. I. r. pp. 145, 210. 



testar, Lacep. ii. pi. 19. fig. 1. 



Lepadogaster testar, Bl. Schn. pp. 4 & 545. 



Cotylis stannii, 3fiUl. ^- Trosch. Hor. Ichthyol. iii. p. 18. taf. 3. fig. 3. 



GolJiesox tudes, Richards. Vorj. Sulph. Fishes, p. 103. pi. 47. fig. 1. 



D. 9-10. A. 6. C. 12. P. 19-20. 



A vertical fold of the skin at the base of the pectoral ; the cora- 

 coid is so high as to reach to the upper margin of the pectoral. A 

 band of short conical teeth in the upper jaw ; a single series in the 

 lower, the anterior ones being slightly compressed incisors, and small 

 like the lateral teeth, which are conical. 



Caribbean Sea.. 



a-e, f. Adult, half-grown, and young. From the Collection of the 

 Zoological Society. 



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