142 WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW TO CATCH FISH 



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157. "LOPHOGOBIUS CYPRINOIDES." 786 2209 



Gobie. "Head3f ; depth 3§ ; greatest width 5^ to 6^. D. 



VI or VII-10 or 11 ; A. 9 or 10; scales 26 to 30 ; vertebrae 

 1 1 -f- 1 5 ; eye 3 y 2 to 4. Body short and deep, little compressed, formed 

 much as in Cyprinodon ; head naked, a prominent naked dermal 

 crest extending from above middle of eye to near front of spinous 

 dorsal ; interorbital width slightly less than diameter of eye ; profile 

 convex ; snout short, bluntish, about as long as eye ; mouth very 

 oblique, the gape slightly curved ; front of upper lip on level of lower 

 border of eye ; lower jaw somewhat projecting ; teeth in both jaws in 

 bands, the outer series erect and somewhat enlarged, those of the 

 inner series small ; scales large, reduced on breast and nape ; a few 

 scales on upper part of opercle ; median line before dorsal naked ; 

 dorsal spines produced in short filaments ; last rays of soft dorsal 

 reaching caudal; caudal rounded ; pectorals lanceolate, reaching be- 

 yond insertion of anal, the upper rays not silk-like ; skull very broad 

 and short, with low, median crest, highest behind ; double crests of 

 temporal region joining at the upper posterior angles of the eyes and 

 forming a bridge over the interorbital area, the crests ending abruptly 

 above the anterior part of the orbit, forming a decided angle, the 

 bridged interorbital leaving a large foramen in front of this angle. 

 Color, blackish green in life ; spinous dorsal black ; soft dorsal, ven- 

 trals, and anal dark, plain ; pectorals lightish, plain ; caudal finely mot- 

 tled. Length, 2 inches. Recently taken by Dr. Evermann in brack- 

 ish water at Biscayne Bay." 



I believe this small fish to be the " Stuffonier " of Mosquito Inlet, 

 there used as Snapper bait. 



158. "GOBIUS STIGMATICUS." (POEY.) 787 2224 



Gobies. " Head 4 ; depth 5 to 6 ; eye 3}§. D. VI-12 ; A. 12 or 

 13; scales 27. Body a little deeper and less compressed than in 

 Gobius encoeomns. Anterior profile moderately decurved ; back slightly 

 arched ; skull flattish behind, much broader than in G. boleosoma, 

 with an evident median ridge ; mouth oblique, large, lower jaw thin 

 and flat, maxillary reaching to below pupil. Teeth above uniserial, 

 some of them enlarged and recurved ; lower teeth in a narrow band, 

 males sometimes with the hindmost of the outer series a strong, ex- 

 serted, recurved canine (present in Poey's type). Anterior half of 



