PISONIAN GOBIOMORE. 



white : allied in habit to the Gobius Schlosseri, 

 having the ventral fins attached to a kind of fleshy 

 arm or process on each side : eyes very much ap- 

 proximated, and situated on the top of the head : 

 lips double and fleshy : teeth unequal and conic : 

 upper jaw furnished on each side with a tooth 

 much longer than the rest : lateral line appearing 

 as if impressed : vent situated towards the middle 

 of the body : tail somewhat lanceolate : first dorsal 

 fin brown, bordered with black : second dorsal fin 

 yellowish, with a longitudinal brown stripe: pectoral 

 fins ovate or fan-shaped : processes on which they 

 are seated very broad. 



PISONIAN GOBIOMQRE. 



Gobiomorus Pisonis. G. maxilla superiore longiore, pinna dorsali 



unica. 



Gobiomore with the upper lip longer than the lower, and 



single dorsal fin. 

 Gobius Pisonis. G. pinna ventrali bipartita, maxilla inferiore 



longiore. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel.p. 1206. 

 Amore Pixuma. Pis. bras. 3. p. 72. 

 Le Gobiomoride Pison. Cepede 2. p. 5,93. 



A small species, described by Piso in his Natural 

 History of Brasil : lower jaw longer than the upper ; 

 and both armed with several rows of pretty strong 

 and sharp teeth : head both compressed and de- 

 pressed, and covered with scales of nearly similar 

 size with those on the back : tail rounded : dorsal 

 fin single. Cepede places this in a separate genus, 

 which he calls Gobiomoroidzs. 



