Family 40.—TRICHONOTIDÆ. (2 Genera, 2 Species.)
"Marine carnivorous fishes, with elongate subcylindrical bodies, cycloid scales, and eyes directed upwards."
Distribution.—Coasts of Celebes, Ceram, and New Zealand.
Family 41.—CEPOLIDÆ. (1 Genus, 7 Species.)
"Marine fishes, with very long, compressed, band-like bodies, covered with small cycloid scales."
Distribution.—Temperate seas of Western Europe and Eastern Asia, and one species in the Malayan Seas.
Cepola rubescens (the Band fish) ranges from Scotland to the Mediterranean. All the other species but one are from Japan.
Family 42.—GOBIESOCIDÆ. (9 Genera, 21 Species.)
"Carnivorous marine fishes, elongate, anteriorly depressed and scaleless, with dorsal fin on the tail."
Distribution.—Temperate and tropical seas; Scandinavia to the Cape, California to Chili, West Indies, Red Sea, Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands.