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jaw projecting; both jaws with very strong, unequal, cardiform 

 teeth, some of the teeth caninelike, most of them depressible; 

 vomer and palatines usually with strong teeth; gill openings 

 comparatively large, in the lower axil of the pectorals; pseudo- 

 branchiae present; no gill rakers; gills three; skin mostly 

 smooth, naked, with many dermal flaps about the head; spinous 

 dorsal of three isolated, tentaclelike spines on the head, and 

 three 'Smaller ones behind, which form a continuous fin; second 

 dorsal moderate, similar to the anal; pectoral members scarcely 

 geniculated, each with two actinosts and with elongate pseudo- 

 brachia; ventrals jugular, I, 5, widely separated, large, much 

 enlarged in the young. Young with the head spinous. Pyloric 

 caeca present. Vertebrae numerous, about 30 in number. 

 Living on sea bottoms, at moderate depths; remarkable for 



great voracity. 



369 Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 



Angler; Gaosefish; BeUmos Fish 



Lopliius piscatoriiis LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. X, I, 236, 1758; MITCHILL, 

 Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 465, 1815; GUNTHER, Oat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus. Ill, 179, 1861; GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 2, 1879; JOR- 

 DAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 844, 1883; BEAN, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 373, 1897; H. M. SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 109, 

 1898; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2713. 1898; 

 IV, pi. CCCLXXXVIII, fig. 952 (skeleton), 1900; SHERWOOD & 

 EDWARDS, Bull. TJ. S. F. C. 1901, 31, 1901. 



Lophi-tts i>isc<itor MITCHILL, Rep. Fish. N. Y. 28, 1814, Long Island. 



Lopldus americanus CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XII, 380, 

 1837: DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 162, pi. 28, fig. 87, 1842; STORER, 

 Hist. Fish. Mass. 101, pi. XVIII, fig. 2, 1867. 



Body depressed, tapering, scarcely longer than head; humeral 

 spine with points, of which the posterior is the longest; head sur- 

 rounded with a fringe of barbels; top of head in young with 

 many strong spines; anterior dorsal spine elongate, fleshy at tip. 

 D. 1-1-1,111-10; A. 9. 



Brownish, mottled, below white; mouth from behind the hyoid 

 bone immaculate; pectorals and caudal black at tip; peritoneum 

 black. North Atlantic, on both coasts; generally common, from 

 North Carolina nortlrward. A fish of singular ugliness of 

 appearance. 



