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HARE-LIPPED GOBY. 



Gobius Lagocephalus. G. fuscus, labiis emarginatis, superiors 



vrassiss'ww. 



Brown Goby, with emarginated lips, the upper one very thick, 

 Gobius lagocephalus. G. maxilla superiore hentisph(erica^ lingua 



lineaque later all nulla. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1202. Pall. 



spic. zoo/. 8. p. 14. t. 2.f. 6. 7. 



DESCRIBED by Kolreuter in the Petersburgh 

 Transactions. Body round, compressed towards the 

 tail : size of a finger : colour grey or dark brown : 

 covered with minute scales : head short, thick, with- 

 out scales : mouth transverse ; upper jaw very 

 thick ; lower with a few larger teeth, which ape 

 slightly hooked : lips cleft in the middle, doubled, 

 the upper fleshy and very thick, reaching much 

 beyond the jaw; palate with numerous crowded 

 small teeth on the margin: eyes distant, small, 

 covered with the common skin : rays of the first 

 dorsal fin simple, of the other and the tail branched: 

 tail oval-rounded : pectoral lanceolate-oval: ventral 

 with very short crowded rays : vent in the middle 

 of the body. 



