Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 685 



1007. ANABLEPS DOTH. Gill. 



Head 4. D. 9; A. 10; scales 65 to 70, 49 before dorsal. Vertebra 

 24 + 22. Flat portion of interorbital space as broad as a scale. Back 

 and sides of the body blackish brown, with a well-defined, broad, golden 

 band along sides from the axil of the pectoral to the base of the caudal ; 

 fins pale. Waters of Central America, from Chiapas to the Isthmus of 

 Panama. (Giinther.) (Named for Captain John M. Dow, discoverer of 

 the species at Panama.) 



Anableps dovii, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 4, Panama; GUNTHER, Cat., vi, 338, 1866. 



313. GOODEA, Jordan. 



Goodea, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 299, (atripinnu). 



Form of Fundulus, but with the intestinal canal elongate, the dentary 

 bones loosely joined, and the teeth slender, movable, tricuspid, attached 

 in a single series on the outer edge of the jaws, not closely set, a band of 

 villiform teeth behind them. Fins small, the dorsal and anal similar, the 

 dorsal slightly in advance of anal. No spines. Scales moderate. Mud- 

 eating, the intestinal canal elongate. Anal fin in male probably not 

 modified as an intromittent organ. Mexico. (Named for Professor George 

 Brown Goode, director of the United States National Museum, and one 

 of the most scholarly of modern writers on fishes.) 



1008. GOODEA ATRIPINNIS, Jordan. 



Head 4; depth 4; eye3. D. 12; A. 13; scales 37 to 40-13. Body oblong, 

 compressed, the back nearly straight, the caudal peduncle deep. Head 

 short, broad, depressed. Mouth small. Lower jaw projecting. Teeth 

 loosely inserted, not close together. Eye moderate, directed partly 

 downward, a little more than half width of interorbital space. Hum- 

 eral scale somewhat enlarged. Fins small ; dorsal slightly in advance 

 of anal; caudal small. Intestinal canal elongate, convolute, (and 

 filled with mud in the types). Bluish above, sides nearly plain; a 

 silvery streak along each row of scales ; vertical fins chiefly black, 

 especially on the distal half. Length 4 inches. Guanajuato, Mexico, 

 from a salt lake in a volcanic basin ; a singular little fish, differing from 

 all the other herbivorous Cyprinodonts in the tricuspid teeth, and 

 apparently, also, in not having the anal fin modified, (ater, black; 

 pinna, fin.) 



Goodea airipinnia, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 299, Leon in Guanajuato, Mexico. 

 (Type, No. 23137. Coll. Prof. Duges.) JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 348, 1883. 



314. PLATYPCECILUS, Giinther. 



Platypcexilus, GUNTHER, Cat., vi, 350, I860, (maculatus). 



Small fishes, with the body deep, the origin of the anal fin distinctly 

 behind that of the dorsal, both fins being short ; otherwise essentially as 

 in Heterandria. (7r/\ari>f, broad ; TroiKthvc, Poetilus Pcetilia.} 



a. Body deep, the depth 2% in length ; side of body with a black spot. MACULATUS, 1009. 



aa. Body moderately elongate, the depth 3% in length; chin with a black line; dorsal with ; 

 black blotch at base. MENTAUS, 1010, 



