106 GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



entirely naked; the pectoral bases and breast scaled; the dorsals 

 not close together, the vertical fins all comparatively low, less 

 than the depth; the pectorals large, broad, the upper rays 

 converted to free silky filaments; the ventrals broad, rounded, 

 not adnate to belly; the caudal fin broad, rounded, blunt. 



The members of this genus are mostly little fishes of shallow 

 bays and estuaries, some of them handsomely colored. 



Key to the Philippine species of Gobius. 



a 1 .' Scales 41 in a longitudinal series and 16 in a transverse series; color 



grayish G. panayensis. 



a'. Scales 28 or less. 

 b\ Scales 25 to 28. 

 c 1 . A pair of lateral canines in lower jaw; a violet vertical band 



through eye to behind angle of mouth G. cauerensis. 



c*. No canines; no band across eye and cheek; body with many length- 

 wise rows of blackish and pearl white dots; two rows of large 



dark spots on lower half of body G. ornatus. 



6 2 . Scales in a longitudinal series 22; a violet black band from eye to 

 opercle; no canines G. oligolepis. 



41. GOBIUS PANAYENSIS Jordan and Seale 



Gobius pano,yensis JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 26 (1907) 

 42, fig. 15. 



Dorsal VI, 1-10 ; anal I, 8 ; there are 41 scales in a longitudinal 

 and 16 in a transverse series. 



The body moderately elongate, compressed, the depth 4.25 

 times, the head 3.4 times in the length; the head broader than 

 deep, cheeks full and rounded, snout bluntly rounded, 3.6 times 

 in head ; the eyes large, oblique, very high up, dorsolateral, equal 

 to snout, close together, the interorbital space equal to pupil; 

 the mouth moderate, jaws equal, posterior angle of maxillary 

 under hind margin of pupil ; each jaw has wide bands of minute 

 teeth, without canines ; the tongue -bluntly rounded, entire ; the 

 head naked, scales above pectoral very small, those on caudal 

 peduncle much the largest; the dorsals continuous at base; the 

 origin of first dorsal posterior to origin of ventrals, the fin low, 

 the middle spines longest, twice in head; the second dorsal of 

 nearly uniform height, equal to first dorsal in height, the pos- 

 terior ray not reaching caudal when depressed; the anal low 

 anteriorly, the posterior rays elongate, twice as high as first 

 and twice in head, not reaching caudal when depressed; the 

 round-pointed pectoral 1.3 times in head; the broad rounded 

 caudal 1.15 times in head; the ventrals fall far short of the 

 slender, pointed, rather prominent anal papilla, 1.5 times in 

 head. 



