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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Gobiesocidæ

Gobiesocidæ.

Body rather elongate, anteriorly depressed, naked. Teeth conical or compressed. A single dorsal fin on the tail, without spinous portion; anal short; ventrals widely apart from each other, with one spine hidden in the skin and four (five) rays. A large adhesive apparatus between them, the posterior portion of which is suspended on the caracoid bones, which are partly free, in the axil of the pectoral fins. Three gills or three and a half. Air-bladder absent. Intestinal tract short, wide, without pyloric appendages.

Carnivorous fishes. Most of the species live in the seas of the temperate regions of both hemispheres; two are known to inhabit seas between the tropics.

Diplocrepis puniceus. Coast of New Zealand.

Crepidogaster tasmaniensis. Coast of Tasmania.

——spatula. Swan River.

Trachelochismus pinnulatus. Coast of New Zealand.