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OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
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Type Specimen : Extant, Gobius lepidus Girard, syntypes, USNM 361 and 362 (Eschmeyer 1998:892). 
Type Locality : San Francisco, California. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch and Reimer 0967:79. 84. 87. table L Fig. 7k From LACMIP locality 423 
(= LACM locality 3245), Signal Hill (= Interstate 405 and Cherry Avenue, Long Beach), Fernando 
Formation, Plio-Pleistocene, Los Angeles County; six otoliths (one as fig. 18) (see Remarks). 
Remarks : According to Powell (1998:70-71), LACMIP locality 423 (= LACM locality 3245) is in Pleistocene 
strata, therefore a Pliocene record of G. lepidus from this locality is questionable. 
Genus Lethops Hubbs 1926 
Lethops connectens Hubbs 1926 
Selected References (fossils only) 
Lethops connectens Hubbs 1926: Fitch 1968:21. 
Lethops connectens Hubbs: Nolf 1985:99. 
Type Specimen : Extant, Lethops connectens Hubbs 1926, holotype, UMMZ 63281 (Eschmeyer 1998:407). 
Type Locality : Carmel Bay, California. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch 0968:211 : Otoliths of L. connectens have been found in several Pliocene and 
Pleistocene deposits in California. 
Referred Specimens in Nolf 0985:991 : He cites Fitch (1964, but should have cited 1968) that otoliths of 
L. connectens have been reported from Pliocene deposits in California. 
Remarks : Because Fitch (1968) did not give any specific fossil locality containing otoliths of L. connectens, 
its presence in the Neogene of California is questionable. 
Genus Rhinogobiops Hubbs 1926 
Rhinogobiops nicholsii (Bean 1882) 
Selected Synonymy & References 
Gobius nicholsii Bean 1882. 
Coryphopterus nicholsii (Bean): Fitch 1967:16, 19-21. 
Coryphopterus nicholsii (Bean): Fitch 1968:21. 
Coryphopterus nicholsii (Bean): Fitch and Lavenberg 1975:67. 
Coryphopterus nicholsii (Bean): Nolf 1985:99. 
Rhinogobiops nicholsii (Bean): Nelson et al. 2004:247. 
Type Specimen : Extant, Gobius nicholsii Bean 1882, holotype, USNM 29803 (Eschmeyer 1998:1169). 
Type Locality : Departure Bay, British Columbia, Canada. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch 0967:16. 19-211 : From LACMIP locality 305 (= LACM locality 44213), San 
Diego, San Diego Formation, Late Pliocene, San Diego County; otoliths present, no specific specimens. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch (T968:21h He makes the general statement that otoliths of C. nicholsii 
( =R. nicholsii ) were found in many southern California Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits, with over 
1,700 being recovered from the Lomita Marl Pliocene, San Pedro (see Remarks). 
Referred Specimens in Fitch and Lavenberg 11975:67) : They make the general statement that otoliths of 
R. nicholsii were present in several Pliocene deposits in California. 
Referred Specimens in Nolf (1985:99k He cites Fitch (1967) that otoliths of R. nicholsii are known from the 
Pliocene of California. 
Distribution of Neogene R. nicholsii outside of California : None known. 
Remarks : Fitch (1967, 1968) listed otoliths of C. nicholsii (= R. nicholsii) from LACMIP locality 435 (Lomita 
Marl), a locality he believed was of Pliocene age, but now considered Pleistocene (Blake 1991; Dibblee 
1999). 
