Waite — Fishes of South Australia 



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Order XENOPTERI. 



Family GOBIESOCIDAE. 



ASP ASMOG ASTER Waite, 1<)()7 (si)iitu]a). 

 ASPASMOGASTER TASMANIENSIS Giinther (('lii.n-fish). 



Crcpido(j<(strr f'isiiHiin<ii^ls fliiiith., ('cit. Fish. Bril. Mus., iii, 1S()1, p. r)07. 



Members of this Family are caUed Clinji'-fishes Ix'caiisc Ihcy fasten tlieiuselves 

 1() stones and seaweed l)y means of a sucker I'ormed by their ventral fins. All are 

 small and of no economic valne. 



ASPASMOGASTER SPATULA Giinther (Cling-fish). 



CrepiduguMer spaiuhi (Jiinth., Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns., iii, 18()1, p. 508; Waite, 



Rec. Aust. Mns., vi, 190(i, p. 201, pi. xxxvi. fig. 4. 

 Aspasinogastcr HpaiuUi Waite, op. elf., 1907, )). 315. 



Fig. 296. Aspasiiiof/astrr spatula. 



DIPLOCREPIS Giinther, isiil ^puniceus). 



DIPLOCREPIS COSTATUS Ogilby ((lino-fish). 



Diplocrcpis co.sf at us Og'il, P.L.S., N.«.W., x, 188.1, ]>. 210 ; Waite, Ree. Aust. 

 Mus., V, 1904, p. 179. p. xxiv, fi-. l. 





Fig. 297. Diplocrrpis costatus. 



