656 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



septentrionalis, together with many individuals of 

 Protomedeia fasciata. Dr Gtinther found the stom- 

 ach of a large specimen filled with shrimp. 



Group GOBIOIDEI 



(Gobies) 



Family gobiidae: 



Subfamily gobiinae^ 



Genus gobiosoma Girard 



Body entirely naked; mouth moderate, horizontal; snout blunt; 



teeth in several series, the outer row enlarged; no canines; 



dorsal spines normally seven, rarely five or six; second dorsal 



and anal short; no barbels about head; shoulder girdle without 



flaps. Species chiefly American. 



321 Gobiosoma bosci (Lac^p^de) 

 Naked Goihy; Mud Creeper; Oyster fish 



GoUus bosci Lacepede, Hist Nat. Poiss. II, 555, pi. 16, fig. 1, 1798, Charles- 

 ton, S. 0!. 



GoUus alepidotus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 547, 1801; De Kay, 

 N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 160, pi. 23, fig. 70, 1842, New York Harbor. 



GoMus mridipallidus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 379, pi. 1, 

 fig. 8, 1815. 



Gobiosoma alepidotum Gunthee, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. Ill, 85, 1861; Jordan 

 & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 638, 1883. 



Gobiosoma bosci Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 613, 1882; Bean, 

 Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 136, 1888; 19th Rep. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 249,' 

 1890; Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 370, 1897; Jordan & Ever- 

 MANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2259, 1898; H. M. Smith, Bull. 

 U. S. F. C. 1897, 105, 1898; Bean, 52d Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 

 109, 1900. 



Body moderately elongate, its depth one fifth or one sixth 

 of total length without caudal; head very broad, three tenths of 

 total length without caudal, flattish above, with tumid cheeks. 

 Eye small, longer than snout, one fifth as long as the head. 

 Mouth large, little oblique, the jaws subequal, the maxillary, at 

 least in males, extending to below posterior part of orbit, three 

 sevenths as long as head. Teeth in few series, the outer con- 

 siderably enlarged; two teeth on each side of inner series of 

 lower jaw specially large canines. Dorsal spines slender, not 

 filamentous, Caudal rounded. D. VII, 14; A. 10. 



