[121] CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



479— TRIPTERYGION » Risso. 



1461. Tripterygion canaiuale - Jordan &, Gilbert. P. 



480. -CLINUS Cuv. & Val. (407) 



^ Gibbonma Cooper. i 



1462. Clinus evides Jordan & Gilbert. C. (1164) 



481.— HETEROSTICHUS Girard. (408) 



1463. Heterostichus rostratus Girard. C. (llGo) 



482.— CREMNOBATES Giinther. (409) 



1464. Cremnobates altivelis ' I^ocl^ingtoii. P. 



1465. Cremnobates marmoratus Steindachner. W. (1166b.) 



1466. Cremnobates fasciatus^ Steiudachuer. AV. 



1467. Cremnobates afRnis"' Steiudacbner. W. 



' Tripterygion Risso. 



(Risso, Europe M<^ridiou. 1826,111,241; type Blennius tripteronotus Risso.) This 

 genus is allied to Clinus , difieriu<i chiefly in the division of the dorsal liu into three 

 nearly or quite separate tins, the anterior of 3 to 6 spines, the median one of many 

 spines and the last of many soft rays. Warm seas in tide-pools. (77j£??, three; 

 TTrepvyiov, tin.) 



2 Tripterygium carmbiale Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. Nat. Mns., 1881, 362. Mazatlau to 

 Panama. 



^Cremnobates altivelis Lockingtou, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1881. Gulf of Cali- 

 fornia. 



* Cremnobates fasciatus Steindachner. 



Light pinkish-brown, much mottled, and with 6 or 8 darker bars; sides of head 

 marbled with whitish, its cirri pale ; 3 black spots behind and below eye ; dorsal pale, 

 with 9 blackish blotches extending from the bands on the sides; in the next the last 

 of these is a large blue-black spot ocellated with orange ; anal with 5 dark blotches 

 and no ocellus ; a dark band across base of caudal ; caudal otherwise pale yellowish 

 with dark dots. Pectorals whitish, barred with black; its base with a whitish area; 

 with a brown center, below which is a small black spot. Ventrals barred. Body 

 rather slender, a little deeper than as in C. intcgripinnis, the snout less acute than in 

 C. marmoratus. First dorsal spine rather higher than second, and lower than the 

 spines of posterior part of fin ; membrane of third spine joining second dorsal at a 

 point above its base, the two parts of the fin therefore separated only by an emargina- 

 tion. Tentacle above eye slender, small ; cirri on side of occiput bluish. Head 4 ; 

 depth 4^-. D. Ill, 24,1. A. II, 18. Lat. 1. 37. L. 2 inches. Florida Straits; north to 

 Key West. 



(Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr, V, 1876, 176). For a comparison of our species of Crem- 

 nobates, see Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 142.) 



^Cremnobates affinis Steindachner. 



Dark brown, paler than in C. nox, but darker and more uniform than in C. fasciatus; 

 lower side of head pearly gray, thickly speckled with darker ; sides with 5 very faint 

 darker cross-bands ; dorsal and anal dusky, the latter with a pale edge ; between the 

 18th and 22d dorsal spines a large dark spot ocellated with yellowish ; caudal yel- 

 lowish white, with darker cross-streaks ; a blackish band, at its base ; pectoral dusky 

 at base, its posterior half yellowish, with darker cross-streaks; ventral similar. A 

 wedge-shaped whitish band extending backward from eye to opercle. Form of C. 

 integripinnis; maxillary reaching to below posterior margin of eye ; a fringed teutacle 

 above eye and one on each side of occiput. First dorsal low, its longest (second) ray 



