Gobioides peruanus (Steindachner 1880)

As for genus except as noted. Mouth very oblique with anterior tip of lower jaw on a horizontal with ventral margin of eye; maxilla terminating at or near a vertical with posterior margin of eye. Meristics.--Dorsal fin VI-I, 15; anal fin I, 15; caudal vertebrae 17; pectoral fin with 19-20 rays. Two or three rows of teeth in each jaw, outer row in upper jaw, 12-46, outer row in tower jaw, 9-42.

Ranging fi'om the Bay of" Paita, southwest of Cateta Cotan, Peru northward to at least El Salvador and possibly as far north as Jalisco, Mexico. Has been collected by trawls from depths as great as 47m off the coast of Costa Rica.