352 COTTID^E. 



PHOBETOR TRICUSPIS (Kroyer). 



Genus PHOBETOR, Kroyer, Naturhistorisk Tidskrift udgivet Henrik 



Kroyer, Kjobenhavn, 1844-45. (Caret dentibus vomerinis, cceteroquin 



Cotti simile.} 

 Coitus gobio, Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, No. 115, p. 159, an. 



1780. 

 Cottu-s tricuspis, Reinhardt, Mus. Reg., et Graah, Reise Ostk. Gronl., 



1832, p. 194 ; Reinhardt, Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes 



Selskabs, Kjobenhavn, p. 52, An. 1832, et Ichtkyologiske Bidrag 



til den Gronlandske Fauna af J. Beinhardt, Kjobenliavn, An. 1837, 



No. 3, p. 35. 

 Pliobetor tricuspis, Kroyer, tit supra cit. ; Reports on Ichthyol. for 



1843-44, Ray Soc., pub. 1847, p. 555. 

 Cottus Fabricii, Girard, Monograph in Smithsonian Contrib., Dec. 



1851, No. 13, p. 59. 

 Tricuspis, Gaimard, Toy. en Scandinavie, Ichth. par Kroyer, pi. iv. (No 



letter-press.) 



Radii: Br. 6-6 ; D. 11/-15 ; C. llf ; A. 17 ; V. 1/3 ; P. 19,* 

 PLATE XXIII., fig. 1-4, nat. size. 



The Danish naturalists, who have the best means of know- 

 ing the fish described by Fabricius, have identified his yobio 

 with the tricuspis of Professor Reinhardt. I have not how- 

 ever been able to obtain a detailed account of the species by 

 any late writer, the above citations being in general brief 

 remarks on the description in the ' Fauna Groenlandica/ said 

 by them to be imperfect. This description generally cor- 

 responds with our fish, but there are some parts of it which 

 would have led me to consider the Greenland one a different 

 species, were it not for Kroyer' s figure above quoted, which, 

 though evidently a bad drawing, is yet so like our Plate I. in 

 essential characters, that it would be unsafe to name them as 

 distinct species. The doubts raised by the consideration of 

 Fabricius's account arise first from his applying the word ha- 



* In the Fauna Greenland, the numbers are : B. 6 ; D. 10/-17; C. 

 12 ; A. 18 } V. 3 ; P. 17 ; and in Kroyer's figure, D. 11/-16 ; C. 11 ; 

 A. 18. 



