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Show 180 PISCES. But one species is known, the Tamioide Hermannien, Lacep., which lives in the mud of ponds, in the East Indies.( 1) Bloch, Schn., p. 63, very properly separates. from the whole ge. nus Gobius; the PERIOPHTALMus, Schn. Where the entire head is scaly; the eyes are placed side by side, and provided at their inferior edge with an eye-lid which can be made to cover them, and the pectorals are covered with scales for more than half their length, which give them the appearance of being attached to a sort of arms. Their gills being even narrower than those of other Gobies, they can live out of water for a still longer period. They are often seen in the Moluccas, where they inhabit, creeping and leaping over the mud, either to escape from their enemies, or to seize upon the small Shrimps, which constitute their chieffood. Some of them have the concave, disc-like ventrals of the true Gobies.(2) The ventrals of others are divided nearly to the base.(3) I would also separate the ELEOTRis, Gronov. Fishes, which, like the Gobies, have flexible spines in the first (1) It is the Cepola cmcula, Bl., Schn., pl. liv, from a drawing by John; the Tre. nioi'de hermannien, Lacep. H, xix, I, from a Chinese drawing; and the Gobioi'de rubicunda, Buch., pl. v, f. 9. l2) Gobius Scltlosseri, Pall., Spic. VIII, pl. 1, f. 1-4, to which must be added the Gob. striatus, Schn., xvi, left among the Gobies, though it is hard to say why, since it is a true Per-ioplttalmus. (3) Gobius Krelreuteri, Pall., Spic. VIII, pl.ll, f. 13;-Per. ruber, Schn.;-Per. papilio, Schn., pl. xxv. N.B. Both the Gobies and the Perioplttalmi with divided ventrals, according to the system of M:. de Lacepede, would be Gobiomores,· if, together with this division o~ the ventrals, they had but one dorsal, they would be Gobiomoioi'des, but the spe· ctes arranged under these two genera have not all their characters. The Gob. Gronovii, ~m., Marcgr., 153, does not belong to this family, it is our genus No:~uusof t~e famtly of the Scomberoi'des. The Gobiumoroi'de pison, Gob. pisonis, Grn., Jlmore · p~ma, Marcgr. 166; Eleotris, 1, Gron., Mus. 16, has not the character ofthisgenus, f~r ll has. two dorsals both in the fig. of Marcgr., and in the description of Gronil' Vtus; by tts ventrals it is an Eleotris. . Bl~ch, Ed. Schn., P· 65, separates from the Gobies, and makes the genusE/tn-trt8 d1fferent from th·a t of Gr onovi·U s w1 u ·c h bears the same name, of those spect·e s whose ve.n trals are merely um' te d l1'k e a f:a n w·t thout be·m g ·m fundt·b uhf· orrn; bu t m· those whtch I have ex · d th . · fi . amme ' e membrane wluch unites the external edges m ront 1s merely som~wh t 1 . . . a s wrter m proport10n, which has prevented it from bemg observed, and for this reason 1 leave them among the Gobies. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 181 dorsal and the post-anal appendage, but whose ventrals a1·e entirely distinct, the head obtuse and slightly depressed, the eyes at a distance from each other, and which have six rays in the branchial membrane. Their lateral line is but slightly marked, and their viscera are similar to those of the Gobies. Most of them inhabit fresh water, and frequently live in the mud. E. dormitatrix, Cuv .; Platycephalus dormitator, Bl., Schn. ('fhe Sleeper.) Tolerably large, with a depressed head, inflated cheeks, and fins spotted with black. From the marshes of the Antilles. ( 1) They are also found in Senegal,(2) and in India.(S) A small species is taken on the coast of the Mediterranean, Gobius auratus, Riss., of a golden colour, with a black spot on the base of the pectoral.( 4) CALLIONYMus, Lin.(5) Fishes of this genus have two strongly marked characters, one in their brauchice, which have but a single aperture, consisting of a hole on each side of the nape, and another in their ventrals, which are placed under the throat, are separate, and larger than the pectorals. Their head is oblong and depressed, their eyes approximated and directed upwards, their intermaxillaries very protractile, and their preopercula elongated behind and terminating in some spines. Their teeth are small and crowded, but there are none in the palate. They are pretty fishes with a smooth skin, whose anterior dorsal, supported by a few setaceous rays, is sometimes very elevated. The second dorsal is elongated as well as the anal. They have the same post-anal appendage as the preceding ones. There is no cul-de-sac to their stomach, and the natatory bladder and cceca are wanting. One of them is common in the British Channel, the Call. lyra, L.; Bl. 161; Lacep. II, x, I. The first dorsal elevated, and the second ray extended into a long filament; orange (1) It is the Gobiomore dormeur, Lacep. Add the Gttavina, Parr., pl. xxxix, f. 1; the Jlmoreguagu, Marcgr. 66;-the .flmore pixuma, Id. lb., or Gob. pisonis, Gm. (2) I infer this from a note attached to a dried skin presented to the Museum by Adanson, and which is specifically different ft·om the preceding ones. (3) The Gob. strigatus, Brouss. Dec., pl. 1, or Gobiomore taiboa, Lacep. cop . Ency. Method., f. 138;-the Eleotris noir, Quoy and G., op. cit. pl. lx, f. 2, and the Scirena macrolepidota, BI. 298, and maculata, Id. 299, 2, which constituted my former genus Prochilus, which must be suppressed. (4) It is an Eleut1·i3 and not a Goby. (5) Callionymus (beautiful name), one of the names of the Uranoscopus among the Greeks. Linnccus applied it to the present genus. \ |
