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GOBIES OF THE PHILIPPINES 



mouth horizontal, wide, the broad, fleshy, upper lip with three 

 clefts, a linear one at the middle, and a baylike or saclike one 

 on each side halfway to corner of mouth, the inner margin of 

 lip tuberculate; the posterior angle of maxillary before or be- 

 neath front margin of eye; behind the middle cleft a short 

 nipplelike papilla, and a short, very stout one below each lateral 

 cleft ; the teeth in upper jaw in a closely packed row, their honey 

 yellow tips composed of three cusps, the middle one longest 



with rounded tip, the others short- 

 er and very sharp pointed, the 

 tips projecting very little beyond 

 the gum; on outer edge of gums 

 of lower lip is a row of simple, 

 horizontal, widely spaced teeth; 

 in addition to the pair of strong 

 canines at symphysis, the inner 

 row has four to six teeth on 

 each side, the last two enlarged, 

 caniniform, and usually as 

 large as the anterior canines; 

 below base of first dorsal and 

 anteriorly the scales are much 

 smaller than those posteriorly, 

 those on nape very small and ex- 

 tending nearly to eyes; the body 

 beneath and in front of ventrals 

 and in axil of pectoral naked ; the 

 dorsals well separated, the first 

 dorsal elevated, the first four or 

 five spines elongated but united, 

 the membrane extending to their 

 tips, the third or second and third 

 longest, 2.9 to 4 times in length 

 but usually just a little longer 

 than head; the second dorsal low, pointed posteriorly, the pos- 

 terior ray sometimes elongate and then touching base of caudal, 

 1.25 to 2 times in head; the anal like second dorsal but lower, 

 the posterior ray never touching base of caudal; the depth of 

 the broad caudal peduncle equals or exceeds its length, 1.25 

 to 2 times in head ; the truncate or slightly rounded caudal equals 

 or more often slightly exceeds head; the very broad, pointed 

 pectoral may equal head but is usually shorter, 1.2 to 1.25 in 



FIG. 3. Sicyopterus fuliag sp. nov. ; a, 

 base of a tooth ; b, muscles of attach- 

 ment ; c, broken cusps. 



