100 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



Genus 23. MACGREGORELLA Scale 



Macgregorella SEALE, Philip. Journ. Sci. A 4 (1909) 533. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10 ; anal I, 8 ; scales 36 to 50. 



The body elongate, low, with broad flat depressed head; the 

 body covered with small cycloid scales, those near tail much 

 enlarged, not always regularly disposed, those in front of first 

 dorsal very small and extending forward to above anterior part 

 of opercles, or beyond this nearly to eyes; the sides of head, 

 snout, and nape behind eyes scaleless, or sides of head may be 

 scaled ; the pectoral bases and breast scaled ; the top, sides, and 

 underparts of head marked by a number of very noticeable 

 transverse and longitudinal ridges and elongated flaps of skinny 

 tissue, much as in Gobiomorphus ; no barbels, though a side view 

 may cause the short ridges below jaw to look like barbels; the 

 mouth small, oblique, with thick lips, fringed within; the teeth 

 very small, without canines, in three or four rows in each jaw, 

 outer row largest, tip of tongue rounded; the dorsals separate 

 but close together; the dorsals and anal not high, equal to or 

 not greatly exceeding depth ; the caudal sharp-pointed or round- 

 pointed, equal to or longer than head ; the pectoral without silken 

 rays above. 



Obscure little reef-dwelling gobies with head of singular ap- 

 pearance. There are two closely related species. 



Key to the Philippine species of Macgregorella. 



a\ Scales 38 to 40 in a longitudinal series; sides of head naked.. M. intonsa. 

 a 2 . Scales about 48 in longitudinal series; sides of head scaled.. M. moroana. 



38. MACGREGORELLA INTONSA sp. nov. 



PLATE 7, FIG. 2 



Dorsal VI, 1-10; anal I, 8; there are 38 to 40 scales in a 

 longitudinal series, 14 in a transverse series, and about 14 before 

 the first dorsal. 



The low, elongated, plump, and rounded body laterally com- 

 pressed only on posterior fourth, dorsal and ventral profiles 

 nearly horizontal and parallel, depth about 6.5 times in length ; 

 the head broad, flattened, 3.7 to 4 times in length, wider than 

 trunk, its depth 1.5 times in its breadth; the blunt snout nearly 

 horizonal, 3.66 times in head, a trifle longer than eye, which is 

 4 to 4.3 times in head; the eyes dorsolateral, gazing upward 

 more than to the side, the interorbital about half an eye diameter ; 

 the mouth small, very oblique, with a thick, protractile upper 



