Number 144 Dixembdr 21, 1923 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann Arbor, Michigan Published by the University 



A NOTE ON THE SPECIES OF EVERMANNICHTHYS, 

 A GENUS OF SPONGE-INHABITING GOBIES 



By Carl L. Hubbs 



In 1917 Radcliffe^ described a new species of sponge-inhab- 

 iting goby from off the coast of North Carolina and from the 

 west side of Florida. He named the species spongicola and 

 referred it to the genus Garmannia. 



In 192 1 HublDS- based a new genus, Radclift'ella, on Garman- 

 nia spongicola. There is no reason to doubt the propriety of 

 generically distinguishing the species spongicola from Gobius 

 paradoxus Giinther, which is the type of Garmannia Jordan 

 and Evermann. 



In the meantime, however, Metzelaar (1919). in a paper only 

 recently received by us, had named a very similar goby from 

 Curasao Bvermannichthys spongicola, new genus and species.^ 



^ Radcliffe, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 52, 1917, p. 423, fig. 



° Hubbs, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich., No. 99, 1921, p. 2. 



' Metzelaar, Report on tlie fishes, collected by Dr. J. Boeke in the 

 Dutch West-Indies 1904-1905, with comparative notes on the marine 

 fishes of tropical West Africa, The Hague, 1919, p. 139, figs. 39, 40; 

 Bijd. Dierk., 2.2^ 1919, p. 141. 



