The Blennies : Blenniidas 



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in the dorsal, and with teeth on the vomer and palatines, are 

 very abundant in the northern seas, extending into deep waters 

 farther south. Ly codes reticulatus is the most abundant of 

 these fishes, which are valued chiefly by the Esquimaux and 



FIG. 469. Eel-pout, Lycodes reticulatus Reinhardt. Banquereau. 



other Arctic races of people. Numerous related genera are 

 recorded from deep-sea explorations, and several others occur 

 about Tierra del Fuego. Gymnelis, small, naked species brightly 

 colored, is represented by Gymnelis viridis in the Arctic and 

 by Gymnelis pictus about Cape Horn. 



FIG. 470. Lycenchelys verrilli (Goode & Bean). Chebucto, Nova Scotia. 



The family of Scytalinida contains a single species, Scytalina 

 cerdale, a small snake-shaped fish which lives in wet gravel 

 between tide-marks, on Waada Island near Cape Flattery in 

 Washington, not having yet been found elsewhere. It dives 



FIG. 471. Scytalina cerdale Jordan & Gilbert. Straits of Fuca. 



among the wet stones with great celerity, and can only be taken 

 by active digging. 



To the family of Congrogadida belong several species of 



