442 Pareioplita?, or Mailed-cheek Fishes 



Of the multitude of genera of Cottida we notice a few of 

 the most prominent. Jordania zonope, a pretty little fish of 

 Puget Sound, is the most primitive in its characters, being closely 

 allied to the Hexagrammida . 



Scorpanichthys marmoratus, the great sculpin, or cabezon, of 

 California reaches a length of 2^ feet. It has the ventral rays 



FIG. 381. Jordania zonope Starks. Puget Sound. 



i, 5, although almost in all the other sculpins the rays are 

 reduced to i, 3 or i* 4. The flesh has the livid blue color seen 

 in the cultus cod Ophiodon elongatus. 



To Icelinus, Artedius, Hemilepidotus, Astrolytes, and related 

 genera belong many species with the body partly scaled. These 



FIG. 382. Astrolytes notospilotus (Girard). Puget Sound. 



are characteristic of the North Pacific, in which they drop to 

 a considerable depth. Icelus, Triglops, and Artediellus are 

 found also in the North Atlantic, the Arctic fauna of which is 

 derived almost entirely from Pacific sources. The genus Hemi- 

 lepidotus contains coarse species, with bands of scales. The 

 "Irish lord," Hemilepidotus jordani, a familiar and fantastic 



