656 NEW YORK STATE MUSEfDM 



septentrionalis. together with many individuals of 

 Protomedeia fasciata. Dr Gtinther found the stom- 

 ach of a large specimen filled with shrimp. 



Group GOBIOIDEI 



(Gobies) 



Family gobiidae 



Subfamily gobiinae 



Genus gobiosoma Girard 



Body entirely naked; mouth moderate, horizontal; snout blunt; 



teeth in several series, the outer row enlarged; no canines; 



dorsal spines normally seven, rarely five or six; second dorsal 



and anal short; no barbels about head; shoulder girdle without 



flaps. Species chiefly American. 



321 Gobiosoma hosci (Lac^p^de) 

 Naked Gohy; Mud Creeper; Oyster fish 



Gobius hosci Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. II, 555, pi. 16, fig. 1, 1798, Charles- 

 ton, S. C. 



Gobius alepidotvs Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 547, 1801; De Kay, 

 N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 160, pi. 23, fig. 70, 1842, New York Harbor. 



Gnbius vnridipallidus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y'. I, 379, pi. 1, 

 fig. 8, 1815. 



Gobiosoma alepidotum Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. Ill, 85, 1861; Jordan 

 & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 638, 1883. 



Gobiosoma hosci Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 613, 1882; Bean, 

 Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 136, 1888; 19th Rep. Cornin. Fish. N. Y. 240, 

 1890; Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 370, 1897; Jordan & Ever 

 MANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. HI, 2259, 1898; H. M. Smith, Bull. 

 U. S. F. C. 1897, 105, 1898; Bean, 52cl Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 

 109, 1900. 



Body moderately elongate, its depth one fifth or one sixth 



of total length without caudal ; head very broad, three tenths of 



total length without caudal, flattish above, with tumid cheeks, j 



Eye small, longer than snout, one fifth as long as the head. 



Mouth large, little oblique, the jaws subequal, the maxillary, at 



least in males, extending to below posterior part of orbit, three 



sevenths as long as head. Teeth in few series, the outer con 



sich'TJihly enlarged; two teeth on each side of inner series of 



l(\v('r jaw specially large canines. Dorsal spines slender, no 



filamentous. Caudal rounded. D. VII, 14; A. 10. 



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