2328 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



2659. CAULARCHUS 3LEANDRICUS (Girard). 



(SUCK-FISH.) 



Head2f; depth 6. D.13; A. 12; V.I, 4; vertebrae 13 + 19 = 32; eye 7^ 

 ID head; distance from vent to caudal 2 in length of body; sucking disk 

 as broad as long, 3| in length. Head broad, nearly circular when viewed 

 from above; interorbital width 3 in head; mouth wide, its width more 

 than \ length of head ; maxillary extending to below eye ; outer teeth of 

 upper jaw rather strong, close set, vertical, conical, or slightly com- 

 pressed, a narrow band of small, conical teeth behind them; lower jaw 

 with larger teeth, 6 or 8 of the anterior broad, incisor-like, with entire 

 edges, placed nearly horizontally ; lateral and posterior teeth small, as in 

 upper jaw; nostrils ending in tubes; spine on opercle sharp, but not pro- 

 jecting through the skin; origin of dorsal fin a little in advance of vent, 

 the fin much higher than the anal ; vent midway between anal and poste- 

 rior edge of disk; pectorals short and broad, not extending back past the 

 margin of the ventral disk, the 3 lower rays forming part of disk; caudal 

 rounded. Color light olive, everywhere reticulated with brownish orange ; 

 middle of upper lip black ; a light bar between eyes and 1 across cheek ; 

 vertical fins dusky; caudal with 2 faint brownish bars near its base. 

 Specimens from red alga? are light pink, mottled with darker, the pale 

 band between eyes very distinct. Length 6 inches. Pacific coast of United 

 States, from Vancouver Island to Point Concepcion ; everywhere very 

 abundant in rock pools ; the largest species of GroMesocidce. (mceandricus, 

 meandering, in allusion to the reticulated streaks.) 



Lepadogaster reticulatus, G-IRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 155, San Luis Obispo, 



California ; name preoccupied. 

 Lepidogaster mceandricus, GIRARD, Pacific R. R. Surv., x, Fishes, 130, 1858, San Luis 



Obispo, California; substitute for reticulatus, preoccupied in Lepadogaster ; GiJNTHER, 



Cat., in, 505, 1861. 

 Gobiesox reticulatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 749, 1883. 



864. BRYSSET^ERES, Jordan & Evermann. 



Bryssetceres, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, 230 (pinniger). 



This genus differs from Gobiesox solely in the great development of the 

 dorsal fin, which has 17 rays, the moderate anal having but 8 or 9 ; the 

 vertebrae 10+16, as usual in GoUesox. One species known. (Ppvttog, 

 sea-urchin ; eraipoS, comrade, the species living in rock pools with the 

 sea-urchins. ) 



2660. BRYSSETjERES PI3VNIGER (Gilbert). 



Head 2f to 2f ; width of body 44- ; of head 3 in length. D. 16 or 17; 

 A. 8 or 9. Interorbital width 3 in head; eye interorbital width; 

 width of mouth If to If in head. Teeth in upper jaw conic, acute, in 

 several series, the anterior row in front enlarged, unequal; in lower jaw 

 the teeth mesially in 2 distinct series, those in middle of anterior row nar- 

 row, entire incisors, those laterally conic, canine-like. No evident oper- 



