^3^ Division OFliSliHS 



SOME AUSTRALIAN FISHES OF THE FAMILY GOBIID^: / 



Allan R^ McCulloch, Zoologist, Australian Museum, 

 • 1 1 



and 



J. Douglas Ootlly, Zoologist, Queensland Museum. 



(Plates xxxi.-xxxvii.) 



It was the original intention of the authors to revise all the Australian 

 species of the Family Gobiidre, but circumstances have prevented us from 

 carrying out our design. We therefore submit descriptions and figures of 

 such species as we have been able to deal with, and give references to the 

 others. We have been unable to allocate some of the species dealt with 

 to anj^ genera known to us, but as we lack several important papers on the 

 classification of the Gobiidoe, we have preferred to leave them under the 

 broader headings Gohlas and Elentria rather than create unnecessary 

 additions to the alreadj' long list of Gobioid genera. 



We have had the advantage of examining the very large collections 

 contained in the Australian Museum, the Queensland Museum, the Macleay 

 Museum, and the South Australian Museum. These include numerous 

 types and cotypes, and many authentically labelled specimens, while the 

 Australian Museum is fortunate in possessing a representative series of 

 Indian fishes from the collection of the late Dr. Francis Day. All these 

 have enabled us to clear up many points in the synonymy of the species 

 dealt with. 



We are greatly indebted to the Trustees of the Macleay Museum for 

 the loan of all the Gobies and Eleotrids under their charge. We also 

 have to thank Mr. Edgar R. Waite, Director of the South Australian 

 Museum, for the loan of those in his collection. 



Key to the Subfamilies of the Gobiida^ 



a. Pectoral base very muscular and mobile ; eyes erectile Periophthalminae. 



aa. Pectoral base not unusually muscular or mobile ; eyes not erectile. 



h. Ventral fins more or less united, usually with an anterior membrane connecting 

 the spinesi •. Gohiinae. 



bb. Ventral fins separate, with no anterior membrane between the spines 



Eleotrinae. 



Family GOBlID^. 



Subfamily PERIOPHTHALMINAE. 



Pen'ophtliahniuae, Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), viii., 1911, p. 733. 



Eyes close together, pi^ominent, erectile ; base of pectoral fin very 

 muscular. Pectoral radials eloiigate, inserted on a broad, laminar ridge 

 of the cleithrum ; hvpocoracoid and cleithrum enclosing a large foramen. 

 Vertebrae 25-26 (10-11+14-16). 



1 This membrane is present in some species of Zonogobius (Z. nuchifasciatus), 

 but is wanting in others (Z. semidoliatus). 



