, APLODACTYLIDAE. 
Wy Pon 
Aplodactylus punctatus Valenciennes, Fee 
Head 4+; depth 3 1/3; D. XVI, 21 1; A-TIT, 8, 1; scales 
Joo dnlateral line to caudal base; 28 scales above lateral 
line to spinous dorsal origin, 22 above to soft dorsal origin, 
28 below to spinous anal origin; 24 larger predorsal scales 
to occiput; snout 2 2/3 in head; eye 5g; maxillary 2 1/6; 
interorbital 3 1/10. 
Body elongate, ovate, compressed; caudal peduncle long 
as deep, least depth 1 5/6 in head. Head width 1g its length. 
Snout convex, length about 5/6 its width. Eye little elevated, 
hind edge about midway in head. Mouth small, transversely 
inferior. Maxillary to front nostril; expansion 12 in CVE. 
Lips broad, coriaceous. Teeth compressed, trilobate, in 
several bands in each jaw; no others, From nostril twice 
size of hind one, closed by cutaneous flap above and below, 
edge of each fringed; front nostril at last third in snout, 
Interorbital convex. Preopercle edge entire, also beri 
suprascapula, 
Rakers 7#14, lanceolate, 3 in filaments, 1 1/6 in eye; 
pseudobranchise nearly large as filaments. Scales firmly 
adherent, cycloid, in longitudinal or horizontal rows; body 
scales especially smaller along bases of vertical fins and 
pectoral, and out on caudal basally; scales mostly absent 
from muzzle, preopercle flange, branchitostegal region 
end interorbital, which areas largely finely rugose; about 
