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3587. Gobiosoma bosci (Lac<5p6de). Naked goby; Clinging goby; Goby; 



Variegated goby; Mud-creeper; Oyster fish. 

 Atlantic coast of United States, Cape Cod to Florida. 

 Gobius bosci Laccpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 1798, 555, pi. 16, fig. 1, 



Charleston, S. C. 

 Gobins alepidotus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth.. 1801, 547; after 



Lacepede. 

 Gobius viridipallidus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1814, 



379, pi. 1, fig. 8, New York. 



3588. Gobiosonia molestum Girard. 



Gulf coast of the United States from Key West to Texas, and south 



to Bahia. 

 Gobiosoma molestum Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., X, 1858, 



169, Indianola, Tex. 

 Gobiosoma alepidotum Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 



1882, 297, Laguna Grande, Pensacola, Fla. 



3589. Gobiosoma histrio Jordan. 



Known only from the Gulf of California at Guaymas. 

 Gobiosoma histrio Jordan, Proc. U. trJ. Nat. Mus.^, VII, 1884, 260, Guay- 

 mas, Mexico. 



3590. Gobiosoma crescentale Gilbert. 



Gulf of California. 



Gobiosoma crescentalis Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 557, 

 Gulf of California, at Albatross station 2825. 



3591. Gobiosoma multifasciatum Steindachncr. 



West Indies; known from Cuba, St. Thomas, and the Lesser Antilles. 

 Gobiosoma multifasciatum Steindachncr, Ichth. Beitr., V, 1876, 183, 



Lesser Antilles. 

 Gobius lineatus Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 424, Cuba; not of Jenyns. 



3592. Gobiosoma horsti Metzelaar. 



Curasao, Caribbean Sea. 



Gobiosoma horsti Metzelaar, Marine Fishes Lesser Antilles, 1923, 

 Curagao. 



3593. Gobiosoma longum Nichols. 



West Indies, north to Floiida. 



Gobiosoma longum Nichols, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIII, 

 1914, 143, fig. 1, Florida. 



Genus 1243. BARBULIFER Eigenmann and Eigenmann. 



Barbulijer Eigenmann and Eigcimiann, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser. 

 I, 1888, 70 {B. papillosus Eigenmann and Eigenmann = Gof)zosoma 

 cauthoecum Jordan and Gilbert). 



3594. Barbulifer cauthoecus (Jordan and Gilbert). 



About Key West, Fla. 



Gobiosoma cautbcecum Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 



1884, 29, Key West, Fla. 

 Barbulifer papillosus Eigenmann and Eigenmann, Proc. Calif. Acad, 



Sci., 2d ser., I, 18SS, 70, Key West, Fla. 



Genus 1244. EVERMANNICHTHYS Metzelaar. 



Evcrmannichthys Metzelaar, Trop. Atl. Vissch., 1919, 139 {E. spongicola 



Metzelaar) . 

 Radcliffiella Hubbs, Occ. Papers, Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., No. 99, 1921, 



2 (Gurmannia spongicola RadclifTe). 



3595. Evermannichthys spongicola (Radcliffe). 



Off shore banks of North Carolina and Florida in cavities of sponges. 

 Garmannia spongicola Radcliffe, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., LII, 1917, 



423, off Cape Hatteras, N. C, and near Tarpon Springs, west coast 



of Florida. 



