UNCTUOUS SUCKER. 



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SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTELIYG1I. 



CYCLOPTERIDA;. 



'* -^X^V*' ^ v ^ v '-'* 



THE UNCTUOUS SUCKER, 



OR, SEA-SNAIL. 



Liparis vulgaris, Sea Snail, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 190, sp. 73. 



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



,, nostras, Sea Snail, WILLUGI-IBY, App. p. 17, H. 6, fig. 1. 



Cyclopterus liparis, LINN/EUS. BLOCK, pt. iv. pi. 123, fig. 3. 



,, ,, Unctuous Sucker, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. Hi. p. 179, pi. 24. 



,, ,, ,, ,, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 47. 



,, Common Sea Snail, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 473. 



LIPARIS. Generic Characters. Body without scales, smooth, elongated, 

 compressed posteriorly ; a single dorsal fin rather lengthened : ventral fins united 

 to the pectorals, and surrounding a single disk. 



THE UNCTUOUS SUCKER, or SEA-SNAIL, so called from 

 the soft and slimy surface of its body, appears to be much 

 more common in the northern parts of the British Islands 

 than in the southern. Mr. Scoresby, and other observers, 

 have even found it as far north as Nova Zembla and Green- 

 land ; and specimens of it were taken in the trawl-net on the 

 west coast of Davis's Straits during the first Arctic voyage of 

 Captain Sir Edward Parry. 



This species is found on the Berwickshire coast ; and Dr. 

 Parnell has obtained specimens in the Frith of Forth. 



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