LUMP SUCKER. 



3G5 



SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYG1I. 



CYCLOPTERIDJE. 



THE LUMP SUCKER. 



SEA-OWL, and COCK PADDLE. 



Cyclopterus lumpus, LINNUS. BLOCH, pt. iii. pi. 90. 



,, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 346. 



Lumpus Anglorum, WILLUGHBY, p. 208, N. 11. 



Cyclopterus lumpus, Lump Sucker, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 176, pi. 24. 



,, ,, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 10. 



lt ,, Lump-fish, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 190, sp. 75. 



,, ,, Common Lump- Fish, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 471. 



CYCLOPTERUS. Generic Characters. Head and body deep, thick, and short ; 

 back with an elevated ridge, the investing skin enclosing simple rays ; pectoral 

 fins uniting under the throat, and with the ventrals forming a single disk. 



THE LUMP SUCKER is remarkable for its very grotesque 

 form, while from the large size of its body, both as to depth 

 and thickness in reference to its length, and the compara- 

 tively small size of its fins, it appears calculated to make but 

 slow progress through the water. 



