502 ORDER MALACOPTERYGI1 SUBBRACHIATI. 



low, with simple rays, and a second with branched 

 rays opposite to the anal ; their body is thicker. 



Cyclopteriis lumpus, L., B1.90. (lump-fish). Has its 

 first dorsal so enveloped by a thick and tuberculous 

 skin that externally it might be taken for a simple 

 hump of the back ; three ranges of thick conical 

 tubercles furnish it on each side. It lives, especially 

 in the North, on medusas and other gelatinous animals. 

 Its flesh is soft and insipid. Heavy, and ill provided 

 with the means of defence, it becomes the prey of 

 phocae, squali, &c. The male is said carefully to guard 

 the eggs which it has fecundated \ 



Liparis, Artedi, 



Have but a single dorsal, tolerably long, as well as the 

 anal. Their body is smooth, elongated, and com- 

 pressed behind. 



We have one upon our coasts, Cyclop, liparis, L., 

 Bl. 123. 3. 4 \ 



The genus of which we are about to speak might 

 also, like that of the pleuronectes, give rise to the 



1 Cyclop, pavonius is only a variety in age of the lump. The 

 Cyc, gibbosus, Will. V. x. f. 2. appears only to be a lump badly 

 stuffed. Add Cyc. spinosus, Schn. 46. ; Cyc. minutus, Pall. Spic. 

 VII. iii. 7, 8, 9. ; Cyc. ventricosus, Id. ib. II. 1, 2, 3. ? Gobius 

 viinutus, Zool. Dan. CLIV. B. 



! It is the same as the Gobio/dc Smyrncen, Lac. Nov. Com. 

 Petrop. IX. pi. ix. f. 4. 6., and probably as the Cyc. souris, Lacep. 

 IV. xv. 3., and perbaps as the pretended Gobius, Zool. Dan. 

 CXXXIV. Add Cyclop. Montagui, Soc. Wern. I. v. 1. ; Cyclop. 

 geluihwsus, Pall. Spic. VII. iii. 1.; Gobius, Zool. Dan. CLIV. A. 



