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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
Jeffreys’ Goby is a rare species. Three specimens 
have been taken by Gwyn Jeffreys off the Hebrides 
at a depth of from 60 to 90 fathoms, one by Wyville 
Thompson at a depth of 180 fathoms between Shetland 
and the Faroe Islands, four by G. 0. Sars in deep 
water outside Stavanger Fjord, and one by Lilljeborg 
at Haugesund. This last specimen has been lent us 
for examination by the Museum of Upsala University. 
THE FRECKLED GOBY (sw. sandstubben" ok sabbiken 6 ). 
GOBIUS MINUTUS. 
Plate XIII, fig. 7. 
Second dorsal Jin relatively short, the length of its base being about ’ 5 of the distance between the first dorsal 
fin and the snout. Peduncle of the tail long and low, its least depth being less than 2 / 5 either of its own length 
or of the distance between the first ray of the first dorsal fin and that of the second, and its length from the 
end of the base of the second dorsal fin to the first upper supporting ray of the caudal fin equal to, or only 
slightly less than (at least about 80 % of) the base of the second dorsal fin. Longitudinal diameter of the eyes 
in full-grown specimens less, or at most only slightly more, than 1 / i of the length of the head. Caudal fin trun- 
cate or rounded. The two dorsal fins distinctly separated, with at least 2 ( sometimes as many as 7) rows of 
scales between them. Scales comparatively small, about 60 in a row along the sides of the body, and, from 12 
to 14 in a transverse row on the body at the beginning of the anal fin. Scales anteriorly extending, in full-grown 
specimens, on the dorsal side to the top of the head, in front of the gill- openings, and on the abdominal side over 
the whole of the throat ( the front, part, of the belly). Coloration yellowish, with, dark ( black or dark brown) spots, 
which are most distinct, and, sometimes form transverse bands, at the middle of the sides and the base of the 
caudal fin, which is also marked with transverse bands. Among the rows of spots on the dorsal fins the lustrous, 
azure spot at the end of the first, dorsal fin in the male is especially conspicuous. 
B.. 5; <« A P. »«-*!; 
V. Y . ; (J. x+ll (+1) + x ; L. lat. circ. GO. 
Syn. Aphya cobites, Rondel., Willughby (p. 207, tab. X, 14, fig. 
4): Gobius apliya, Art. p. p. (Gen., p. 29; Syn., p. 47); 
Lin. p. p. Syst. Nat., ed. X, tom. I, p. 263; Gron., Zoo- 
pbyl., fasc. I, p. 81; Penn. (Spotted Goby), Brit. Zool., tom. 
Ill, p. 187, tab. XXXVII, No. 9G. 
Gobius minutus, Pall. (Gronov. emend.), Spic. Zool., fasc. VIII, 
p. 4; Gmel., Syst. Nat,. Lin., ed. XIII, tom. I, p. 1199; 
Nilss. (p. p.), Prodr. Ichth. Scand., p. 94; Ekstr., Vet.- 
Akad. Handl. 1834, p. 64; Cuv., Val., Jlist. Nat. Poiss., 
vol. XII, p. 39; Fr., Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1838, p. 242; Kr., 
Damn. Fishe, vol. I, p. 407 ; Sundev., Stockh. Lans Hush. 
Sallsk. Handl., H. 6 (1855), p. 80; Nilss., Skand. Fn., 
Fisk., p. 222; Gthr, Cat. Brit. Mas., Fish., vol. Ill, p. 58; 
Mgrn, Finl. Fisk, (disp.), p. 17; Lindstr., Gotl. Fisk., Gotl. 
L. Plush. Sallsk. Arsber. 1866, p. 15 (sep.); Steind., Stzber. 
Akad. Wiss. Wien, Bd. LVII, Abtb. I (1868), p. 400; Wthr, 
Naturb. Tidskr. Kbhvn, ser. 3, vol. IX, p. 198; vol. XI, 
p. 54; vol. XII, p. 17; Coll., Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christ., 
1874. p. 158; ibid., Tilliegsh., p. 53; N. Mag. Naturv. 
Christ., Bd. 29 (1884), p. 60; Seidl., Fauna Balt., Arch. 
Naturh. Liv-, Est-, nnd Kurl., ser. 2, vol. VIII, p. 121; 
Malm, Gbys, Boh. Fn., p. 433, tab. V, fig. 4; Hcice, Arch, 
f. Naturg., Jahrg. 46, Bd. I (1880), p. 313; Day, Fish. 
G:t Brit., Irel., vol. I, p. 165, tab. LII, fig. 4; Mela, Vert. 
Fenn., p. 284, tab. IX; Mob., Hcke, Fisch. Osts., p. 54; 
Hansen, Zool. Dan., Fishe, p. 34, tab. V, fig. 8; Lillj., 
Sv., Norg. Fisk., vol. I, p. 580. 
Gobius minutus (=9)+ Gob. unipunctatus + Gob. gracilis (=cP), 
Parn., Fish. Firth of Forth, Mem. Wern. Soc., vol. VII 
(1838), pp. 242—245, tab. XXIX. 
Gobius Ekstromii, Gthr, 1 . c., p. 57. 
Next to the Black Goby the Freckled Goby is the 
largest of the Scandinavian species of this genus. In 
Bohuslan its ordinary length varies between 50 and 
100 mm. In the Baltic it attains a length of at least 
75 mm. As Fries has already remarked, the typical 
form of this fish is expressed in the comparatively great 
length of the peduncle of the tail and the distance be- 
tween the two dorsal tins, which varies in length, but 
is always distinct. It is further marked by the terete 
a Malm, 1. c. 
b SuNDEVALL, 1. C. 
c Sometimes, though seldom, 
d Sometimes, though seldom, 
1 
8 
1 
9’ 
or - according to Steindachner. 
according to Steindachner. 
Ekstrom’s 
1 
13 
is 
probably due to a mistake (?). 
