A treatise on zoology . d tropical seas. Sub-Tribe B. The subocular shelf is absent, and the suborbitalarch generally not ossified. The entopterygoid, the eye-muscle canal,and the epipleurals are lost. Family Callionymidae. Scaleless marine fish with a protractilemouth, widely separated pelvic fins with a spine and five soft dermotrichs,and a separate spinous dorsal. The vertebiae are few, the two last areenlarged, and many neural spines are bifid. The forked post-temporalis fixed to the skull. A fenestra is present between the scapula andcoracoid, and the three broad radials rest on the latte
A treatise on zoology . d tropical seas. Sub-Tribe B. The subocular shelf is absent, and the suborbitalarch generally not ossified. The entopterygoid, the eye-muscle canal,and the epipleurals are lost. Family Callionymidae. Scaleless marine fish with a protractilemouth, widely separated pelvic fins with a spine and five soft dermotrichs,and a separate spinous dorsal. The vertebiae are few, the two last areenlarged, and many neural spines are bifid. The forked post-temporalis fixed to the skull. A fenestra is present between the scapula andcoracoid, and the three broad radials rest on the latter. The gill-openingis reduced to a small aperture above the operculum. The sexual colora-tion of the male is often very vivid. Gallionymus, L., the Dragonet; widely distributed. Vulsus, Gthr.,Celebes. Family Gobiesocidae : The Cling-Fishes, are scaleless and spineless,with a protractile iiiouth and simple post-temporal. The ventral BLENNIIFORMES 457 surface of the abdoiiuu is occupied by a large complex sucker formedhi-. ps. pvs. Fio. 47 Obliqui^ viiitral virw »{ goua)iii, Lac. a, anus; hi; branchial opening; n,nostril; p, left pfctoial lin which .joins the right to form the edge of the pectoral sucker, ;pv, pelvic tins combined to form the pelvic sucker, partly by the pelvics widely separated, and partly by the pectoral fins (Fig. 479) ; the pelvic bones, cleithra, and postclavicles are expanded to support it, and the whole pectoral girdle is much -^\ 7 modified. The median fins .../ -X \ are spineless. Gobiesox, Lac. ; Ghorim-chismus, Barn.; Lepadogaster,Gowan ; Leptopterycjius, Tr. ;Diplocrepis, Gthr. —-widelydistributed, marine. Family the Callionymi-dae, but with an ossifiedsuborbital arch, a morenormally forked post-tem-poral, wide gill-openings, asingle dorsal, and vertebrae. Trichonotus, Sclin. ; St. — IndianOcean. Hemerocoetes, C. andV. ; N. Zealand.
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