Discovery reports (1937) Discovery reports discoveryreports16inst Year: 1937 PINGUIPEDIDAE 63 Hab. Mocha Island, Chile. This species appears to be most nearly related to P. gilliesii (Hutton) from New Zealand, but has one more spine in the dorsal fin, a greater number of dorsal and anal rays, smaller scales, and a broader interorbital region. The absence of teeth on the vomer distinguishes it from this and from all other species of Parapercis, but I am not inclined to erect a new genus for its reception on this account. McCulloch (1914, Biol. Res. 'Endeavour', 11, p. 154) has shown that the
Discovery reports (1937) Discovery reports discoveryreports16inst Year: 1937 PINGUIPEDIDAE 63 Hab. Mocha Island, Chile. This species appears to be most nearly related to P. gilliesii (Hutton) from New Zealand, but has one more spine in the dorsal fin, a greater number of dorsal and anal rays, smaller scales, and a broader interorbital region. The absence of teeth on the vomer distinguishes it from this and from all other species of Parapercis, but I am not inclined to erect a new genus for its reception on this account. McCulloch (1914, Biol. Res. 'Endeavour', 11, p. 154) has shown that the palatine teeth are sometimes absent and sometimes present in certain species of Parapercis, and in P. gilliesii the vomerine teeth are only 3 or 4 in number. Fig. 28. Parapercis chilensis. Holotype. x \. BOVICHTHYIDAE Cottoperca gobio (Giinther). ' Yakouroum. ' ? Batrachus trigloides, Schneider [ex Forster MS.], 1801, in Bloch, Syst. Ichth., p. 44. ? Callionymus trigloides, Forster, 1844, Descript. Anim., p. 358. Aphritis gobio, Giinther, 1861, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) vn, p. 88; Cunningham, 1871, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xxvn, p. 469; Giinther, 1880, Shore Fish. 'Challenger', p. 21, pi. ix; Giinther, 1881, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 20; Perugia, Ann. Mus. Civ. stor. nat. Genova (2) x [xxx], p. 615. Cottoperca rosenbergii, Steindachner, 1876, SitzBer. Akad. Wiss. Wien, lxxii (1), p. 67, pi. v, fig. 1; Vaillant, 1888, Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, vi. Zool., Poiss., p. 28, pi. iv, fig. 1. Cottoperca gobio, Smitt, 1898, Bih. Sv. Handl., xxiv, iv, No. 5, p. 13, pi. i, fig. 16, pi. ii, figs. 18-20; Berg, 1899, Comun. Mus. Nac. B. Aires, 1, p. 173; Delfin, 1901, Cat. Peces Chile, p. 84; Regan, 1913, Trans. R. Soc. Edinb., xlix, p. 253, pi. iv, fig. 3; Devincenzi, 1924, Anal. Mus. Montevideo (11) 1 (5), p. 264. Pseudaphritis gobio, Lonnberg, 1905, Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. , V (6), pp. 8, 16; Lonnberg, 1907, Hamb. Magalh. Sammelr., Fische, p. 10; Thompson, 1916, Proc.
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