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la 1835 or 1836, Reinhardt offered to the Danish Academy a Contribution 

 ou new Greenland Fishes, closing this contribution with the remark that 

 " there also exists in the Greenland seas the Cyclopterus liparis, Fab., which is 

 named Liparis tunicata, on account of the peculiar loose adherence of the skin, 

 and which, in its characters, has much similarity with the European species 

 illustrated by Yarrell, in his British Fishes ; but, as the Museum had in its pos- 

 session only one badly preserved specimen, no certain identification could be 

 made."* 



The name L. tunicata is thus solely based on the C. liparis of Fabricius, and 

 as the first variety is the one fully described by that author, and consequently 

 the type of his species, and, as Reinhardt's remarks on the similarity of the 

 species to the European are only correct for that variety, the name L. 

 tunicata must be connected with it. 



But, in a subsequent communication on " Liparis glutinosus," Reinhardt's am- 

 biguous language might lead one to suppose that he connected the name L. 

 tunicatus with only the large variety of Cyclopterus liparis of Fabricius, he re- 

 marking that " Fabricius considered that the large Greenland species, th 

 Liparis tunicatus (sic.) of the Museum, might well be the Stellerian L. gluti- 

 nosus." However this may be, the name proposed by Reinhardt must be ac- 

 cepted with its first limitation, and share with the variety of Fabricius the 

 doubts concerning its proper application. 



The name Liparis Fabricii was subsequently proposed by Kroyer for the spe- 

 cies under consideration, and being the first known to be applicable to it, is 

 provisionally accepted. 



The radial formula given by Giiother differs considerably from that assigned 

 by Kroyer, (B. 5, D. 42, A. 33 35, C. 12, Gthr.) and approximates to that of Fab- 

 ricius, especially in the number of caudal rays. 



Liparis Montagui, Don. 



Liparis Montagui Kroyer, Voyage en Scandinavie, &c, tab. 13, p. 1, a f, 

 Liparis Muntagui Kroyer, Naturhistorisk Tidskrift, ser. 3, B. i., p. 243. 



Only the references to the Greenland form have been given. It may be re- 

 marked that while Kroyer, both in his Denmark's Fiske, (ii., 519) and the 

 Naturhistorisk Tidskrift, has assigned 18 caudal rays to this species, Yarrell, 

 Nilsson and Giiuther have only attributed to it 13 or 14. There are also some 

 slight discrepancies between the proportions assigned to the species by differ- 

 ent authors. 



Liparis major, Gill. 



Cyclopterus liparis, 2, Altera major, Amersulak-Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, 



p. 136, 1780. 

 Cyclopterus liparis, major, Walbaum, Artedi Genera Piscium, p. 489, 1792. 

 Cyclopterus liparis, B. Bonnaterre, Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique 



Ichthyoloyie, p. 28, 1788. 

 Liparis tunicatus, pp. Reinhardt, Oversigt over det Kongelige DanskeVidenskaber- 



nes Selskabs Forhundliugar, 1835 6, p. vi., p. cxi. 

 Liparis tunicata, Kroyer, Naturhistorisk Tidskrift, ser. 3, B. i., p. 236, 1862. 



This species appears to be the second variety of Fabricius' Cyclopterus 

 liparis, to which were attributed a much larger size, (long. 10 unc. et lat. 4 

 unc.) and the formula D. 44, P. 40, V. 8, A. 35, C. 11. Subsequently, it was 

 fully described by Kroyer, under the name Liparis tunicata, oiigiually based, by 



* " Bndelig sluttedes dette Bidrag med den Bemaerkuing, at der gives i det griinlandske Hav 

 foruden Fabricii Cyclopterus liparis, som man kunde kalde Liparis tunicata fonnodelst Hudens 

 6aerdele3 lose Vedhaengen, endnu en anden Art, der i sin Tegning har megen Lighed med den af 

 Yarrell i bans britixh fishes afteguede europaeiske Art, men da Museet kun er i Besiidelse af et 

 enesto ikke fuldstaendigt Examplar kan ensikker Bestemmelse endnu ikke flnde Sted." 



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