Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2209 



with 2 bands parallel with its upper margin; second dorsal with 3 nar- 

 row longitudinal bands. (Gill.) Fresh waters of Trinidad and Surinam ; 

 not seen by us. (brevis, short; -ceps, head.) 



Evortlwdus breviceps, GILL, Proc.Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 195, Trinidad; JORDAN & ElGEN- 

 MANN, I.e., 486. 



812. LOPHOGOBIUS, Gill. 

 (CRESTED GOBIES.) 



Lophogobius, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 240 (cristagalKcyprinoides). 



Dorsal spines 6 ; scales evidently ctenoid. Body short, compressed, form 

 much as in Dormitator ; nape with fleshy crest; scales large. Vertebrae 

 11 -f 15. Interorbital area of cranium anteriorly elevated, with a large 

 foramen-like depression in front of eye. One species, differing consider- 

 ably in form from the other Gobies. The study of its skeleton shows no 

 distinction of much importance unless the peculiar form of its interorbital 

 area be regarded as such. (Ad0o, crest; Gobius.) 



2535. LOPHOGOBIUS CYPRINOIDES (Pallas). 



Head 3| ; depth 3|; greatest width 5 to 6. I>. VI or VII-10 or 11; A. 

 9 or 10; scales 26 to 30; vertebrae 11 + 15; eye 3 to 4. Body short and deep, 

 little compressed, formed much as in Cyprinodon; head naked, a prominent 

 naked dermal crest extending from above middle of eye to near front of 

 spinous dorsal; interorbital width slightly less than diameter of eye; 

 profile convex; snout short, bluntish, about as long as eye; mouth very 

 oblique, the gape slightly curved ; front of upper lip on level of lower 

 border of eye; lower jaw somewhat projecting; teeth in both jaws in 

 bands, the outer series erect and somewhat enlarged, those of the inner 

 series small; scales large, reduced 011 breast and nape; a few scales on 

 upper part of opercle; median line before dorsal naked; dorsal spines 

 produced in short filaments; last rays of soft dorsal reaching caudal; 

 caudal rounded ; pectorals lanceolate, reaching beyond insertion of anal, 

 the upper rays not silk-like; skull very broad and short, with low, 

 median crest, highest behind; double crests of temporal region joining 

 at the upper posterior angles of the eyes and forming a bridge over the 

 interorbital area, the crests ending abruptly above the anterior part of 

 the orbit, forming a decided angle, the bridged interorbital leaving a 

 large foramen in front of this angle. Color blackish green in life; spinous 

 dorsal black ; soft dorsal, ventrals, and anal dark, plain ; pectorals lightish, 

 plain; caudal finely mottled. Length 2 inches. West Indies, north to 

 southern Florida ; generally common in the streams and brackish waters 

 of Cuba and other islands. Recently taken by Dr. Evermann in brackish 

 water at Biscayne Bay, Florida, (uvrtpirog, carp ; eidog, resemblance.) 



Gobius cyprinoides, PALLAS, Spicilegia, Zool., vm, 17, pi. 1. fig. 5, 1770, Amboina ; CUVIER & 

 VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xn, 129, 1837 ; GUNTHER, Cat. Fish., in, 8, 1861. 



Gobius cristagalli, VALENCIENNES, in CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xn, 130, 

 1837, Havana ; GuiCHENOT, in Kamon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 128, pi. 3, fig. 3, 1850. 



Lophogobius cyprinoides, POEY, Repertorio, I, 335, 1867; POEY, Synopsis, 393, 1868; POEY, 

 Enumeratio, 125, 1876; JORDAN & EIGKNMANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 487; EVEB- 

 MANN & KENDALL, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1897, 131, plate 9, fig. 13. 



