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Faragohiodon, Bleeker, Ned. Tijdsclir. Dierk., iv., 1873, p. 129 (Gobins 

 echinocephalus, Riippell)^^. Id., Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Sci. Nat., ix., 

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

 1906, p. 396. 



Form short and compressed, head subglobular. Body with large 

 ctenoid scales. Head naked, with papillae or setfe ; some laige open 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 girdle a smooth ridge. Pseudobranchige 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. Ventrals united, cup-shaped, with i/5 lays. Caudal rounded. 



Paragobiodon echinocephalus, Bilppell. 



(Plate xxxiv., fig. 1.) 



Gobins ecliinoceplialus, 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. 



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

 135. Id., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 35. Id., 

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



Gobius xanthosoma, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, iii., 1852, p. 703. 

 Id., Giinther, Brit. Mns. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 42. 



Gobius melanosoma, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, iii., 1852, p. 703. 

 Id., Peters, Monatsbr. Ak. Berlin, 1868, p. 265. Id., Day, Fish. 

 India, 1876, p. 297, pi. Ixiv., fig. 1. 



Gobius gobiodoH, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1869, p. 516. 



Gobius gibbosus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, v., 1881, p. 601, 



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



Gobius waitii, Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix., 1903, p. 234, pi. 

 iii., fig. 3. 



Paragobiodon echinocephahis, Bleekei", Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk., iv., 1873, 

 p. 129, and Verb. Akad. Amsterdam, xviii., 1S79, p. 17. Id., Jordan 

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



Paragobiodon xanthosomns, Bleeker, Arch. Ni'erl. Sci. Nat., xiii., 1878, p. 

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



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



