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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
GOBIUS SCORPIOIDES. 
Fig. 67. 
Base of the second dorsal fin about equal in length to the peduncle of the tail or longer; the, least depth of the latter 
more than 7 % of the length of the body. Eyes superiorly only slightly “ separated from each other , their longitudinal 
diameter being about 36 % h of the length . of the head. Number of scales in a row along the sides of the body 
about 28°. Forehead and throat scaleless. Six rays in the first dorsal fin. Funnel formed by the ventral fins an- 
teriorly incomplete. Ground-colour of the body whitish-yelloiv 11 , with large, irregular , brownish black, transverse bands. 
Fig. 67. Gobius scorpioides, magn. l 2 / 3 diam. Specimen belonging to the Zoological Museum of Christiania University. 
D. 6| ; A. — ; P. 18 — 20; V. 1 / 5 ; C. 12 +,r; L. lat. 
8 7 
eirc. 28 — 30. 
Syn. Gobius scorpioides, Coll., Ann., Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 
XIII, p. 446; Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christ. 1874, p. 175, tab. 
Ill, figs. 4 — 6; ibid., Tillaegsh., p. 58; Winth. ( Lebetus ), 
Naturh. Tidskr. Kbhvn, ser. 3, vol. XI, p. 49; vol. XII, p. 18; 
Malm, Gbgs , Boh. Fn., p. 651; Lii.lj. (Gobius), Sv., Norg. 
Fisk., vol. I. p. 620; Hansen, Zool. Dan., Fislce, p. 36, 
tab. VI, fig. 7. 
Gobius orcci and Gobius scorpioides have hitherto 
been examined almost exclusively by Collett. Of the 
former species he has mentioned 5 more or less well- 
preserved specimens, from 24 to 32 mm. long, which 
were taken off the south-west coast of Norway, at a 
depth of from 30 to 200 fathoms. Only three speci- 
mens of the latter species are known. Two, respec- 
tively 28 and 37 mm. in length, were taken by G. O. 
Bars at a depth of from 20 to 60 fathoms, outside 
Stavanger Fjord and Hardanger Fjord. The third, a 
young specimen 18V 2 mm. long, and probably referred 
to this species chiefly on account of its coloration, was 
found by Winther at a depth of 6 fathoms, in the 
south-west of the Cattegat (at the north entrance of 
the Great Belt). Of their manner of life nothing further 
is known. 
“ Distinctly, according to Winther. 
b 27 % 
u ' /° 5 ) )) 11 
c About 30 ,, „ ,, 
d Deep rose-colour,, ,, ,, 
