GOBID^. ELEOTBIN^. 



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3. SuBFAM. ELEOTRIN^. 



General character of the last, but the ventrals are not 

 united^ and the shortest rays are in front. 



AsTEBOPTEBYx Rilppell. Small, ovate, fusiform, com- 

 pressed ; scales large, crenated ; dorsal fins two, 

 the first very high and falcate ; ventral fins very 

 long; the outer rays(?) the longest; mouth hori- 

 zontal, moderate, with a single row of conic teeth ; 

 no lateral line or anal appendage ; head compressed, 

 covered with scales. 



A. semipunctatus. Riipp. Atl. i. pi. 34. fig. 4. 



Eleotbis G7'onov. General structure of Gobius ; but 

 the ventral fins moderate ; dorsal fins two, the first 

 with flexible spines ; eyes remote. 



Siculus. Sw. App. niger. Frey. Atl. pi. 60. fig. 2. * 



RuPELLiA Sw. General habit of Gobius ; ventral 

 fins united; head thick, fat, obtuse, covered with 

 fleshy cirri or filaments ; eyes vertical ; lower jaw 

 directed upwards, and longer than the upper ; mouth 

 vertical; representing Uranoscopus, &c. 



R. echinocephala. Riipp. Atl. i. pi. 34. fig. 3. 



CoMEPHOBus Lac. Dorsal fins two ; ventrals wanting ; 

 muzzle oblong, broad, and depressed ; pectorals very 

 long ; gill opening large, with seven rays. 



C, Baicalensis. Pall. Nov. Act. i. ix. fig. 1. (Jig. 91.) 



* If the Scicena macrolepMota and maculata of Blocb, pi. 298, 299, fig. 2, 

 placed here by Cuvier, are correctly represented, they do not, I think, be- 

 long to this genus ; because the ventral fins are drawn as in ordinary fishes, 

 that is, with the longest rays in front, whereas, in Eleoiris, those in front 

 are the shortest. 



