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| Schismatogobius n. g. 
Body elongate, naked. Teeth fixed, long, needle like, curved back- 
wards at the end, widely set in several rows in both jaws. Maxilla 
produced far behind the eye. Vertical fins well developed, first dorsal 
with six spines. Ventrals united, forming a well developed disk. 
Gobiosoma longipinne Steind. from the Gulf of California may 
possibly find a place in this genus, besides the type Sch. bruynisi, de- 
scribed below. Jordan&Evermann (Fishes of N. America) placed 
Steindachner’s speciesin the genus Hvermannia making (p. 2256) how- 
ever the remark, that it may be the type of a distinct genus. It agrees 
with Sch. bruynist, in the fact of having a naked body combined with 
a produced maxilla, these features being the chief characteristics of the 
new genus. It differs however in having a much longer second dorsal 
and anal, with 16—17 rays, while my species has only 9 rays in those 
fins. The teeth of G. longipinne are described by Steindachner as 
follows: »die beiden Kiefer ... tragen seitlich zwei, vorn 3 Reihen 
kleiner spitzer Zähne«. According to this description the teeth seem 
to be much smaller than in Sch. bruynisi and probably they are not 
curved backwards, as Steindachner does not mention anything of 
that kind. . 
Schismatogobius bruynisi n. sp. 
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Body naked, elongated, compressed, head depressed, the neck and 
the crown of the head flattened, giving to the latter a snake like ap- 
pearance. The height of the body is contained more than 7 times in 
the total length, 6 times in the length without caudal. Profile sloping 
gradually from the first dorsal to the point of the snout. The latter is 
pointed, slightly shorter than the eye. Eyes situated much nearer to the 
end of the snout than to the hinder margin of the operculum, close tog- 
ether. Their longest diameter is contained 4 times in the length of the 
head. The latter is contained a little more than 4 times in the total 
length, 31/, times in the length without caudal. Rictus oblique. Prae- 
maxilla protractile. Maxilla very long, extended backwards far behind 
the eye, longer than the postorbital part of the head. Lips moderately 
thick. Teeth fixed, long, needle like, curved backwards at tip, widely 
set, in the upper jaw in three rows in front. In the lower jaw the teeth 
in the back row are strongly inclined backwards. The tooth row in the 
upperjaw much longer than that of the lower jaw, the latter row extending 
half way the length of the rictus. Isthmus very broad. The first dorsal 
is lower than the body. The distance between the fifth and sixth ray 
is much more than that between the other ones. The second dorsal 
