GOBIUS. 



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with broad baral membrane, its extremity widely separated from vent. 

 Caudal rounded, f to once length of head. Caudal peduncle H to U 

 times aslong as deep. Scales ciliated, 65-63 in longitudinal series, 1-5- 

 17 in transverse series between dorsal and anal. Brownish, with darker 

 dots and small spots ; first dorsal with a large black spot in its posterior 

 third ; second dorsal and caudal with small dark spots ; fins sometimes 

 dark purplish brown. 



Total length 210 millim. 



Madagascar and Mascarene Islands; Tahiti, Samoa, Rarotonga, and 

 Viti Levu; confined to fresh waters. 



1. A(L 

 2-3. Yo-. 



Taniatave, Madagascar. 

 Eodrioiiez. 



Paris Mnsenm (E.). 

 G. Gulliver, Esq. (P.). 



Fig. 20. 



Gohius scld&jdii. 

 Bissau. 



]8. GOBIUS SCHLEGELII. 



Guntli. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 46 (18G1) ; Bleek. Nat. Verh. Gen. Haarlem, (2) 

 xviii. 1863, p. 103, pi. xiii. fig. 1. 



Body strongly compressed ; depth of body 4 to 5 times in total 

 length, length of head ^\ to of times. Plead ]| to 2 times as long as 

 broad, naked ; snout rounded, as long as or a little longer than eye, 

 which is 1 to o times in length of head ; interorbital space very 

 narrow ; lower jaw projecting ; mouth extending to below anterior 

 border or anterior third of eye; teeth in a narrow band, outer 

 enlarged ; a curved canine on each side of lower jaw often present. 

 Dorsals VI, I 9-10, narroAvly separated, longest ray f to f length of 

 head. Anal I 8-9, opposite to second dorsal. Pectoral as long as or a 

 little longer than head. Ventral reaching vent or not quite so far, with 

 abroad bassil membrane, each side of which is pointed and produced. 

 Caudal pointed, the median rays more or less prodaced, H to 2 times 



