TAENIOIDES 333 



167. TAENIOIDES CIRRATUS (BIyth) 



Amblyopus cirratus BLYTH, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 29 (1860) 147. 

 Gobioides cirratus DAY, Fishes of India (1878) 318, pi. 69, fig. 4. 

 Amblyopus brachygaster GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 



134. 

 Taenioides brachygaster JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 



27 (1908) 279. 



Dorsal VI, 1-42 to 46; anal I, 42 to 45. 



The depth of the stout, cylindrical, elongate body 15.6 to 16 

 times length ; the tail 1.9 to 2 times as long as head and trunk 

 together, its posterior third more or less laterally compressed; 

 the stout, blunt head flattened above, oblong, 7.85 to 8.3 times 

 in length, wider than body or its own depth, which equals or is 

 0.1 less than that of body; its depth 1.2 to 1.25 in its breadth, 

 which is 1.65 to 1.75 times in its own length; the snout very 

 broad, its tip convex, 3.5 times in head; the eyes very small, 

 mere black dots beneath the skin, the interorbital space f or a 

 little less of the length of snout; the mouth strongly oblique, 

 the posterior angle of maxillary extending about 0.75 the distance 

 to a perpendicular from eye; the lips very much enlarged at 

 angle of mouth, each with a broad, fleshy flap, the upper one 

 especially with a fringe of sensory papillae ; there are six strong, 

 erect, slightly in ward -curved, prominent teeth forming the outer 

 row in lower jaw, projecting over upper lip; in upper jaw is 

 an outer row of ten to twelve nearly horizontal, downward- 

 curved teeth, a little smaller than those in outer row of lower 

 jaw; the small inner teeth in each jaw in a long, narrow, lunate 

 band of four rows, placed some distance behind the enlarged 

 outer row; the chin prominent, vertical, with three pairs of 

 barbels and usually a single one between the middle pair; the 

 sides of chin, snout, cheeks, lower edge of preopercle, ocular 

 region, opercles, and sides of nape back to gill opening covered 

 with thick ridges of sensory papillae; from upper end of gill 

 opening to base of caudal is a median lateral row of prominent, 

 short, transverse, vertical papillate pores; the dorsals and anal 

 each enveloped in a thick, tough skin, and separated from cau- 

 dal by a deep, well-marked notch ; the short, broad, rounded pec- 

 torals 2.65 to a little less than 3 times in head and 22.3 to 23.3 

 times in length ; the broadly lanceolate caudal 8.85 to 9.5 times 

 in length, and always shorter than head; the broad, rounded 

 ventrals 1.32 to 1.47 times in head, 11 to 11.5 times in length; 

 the anal papilla truncate-cylindrical to subglobose. 



