I •!-■> I'SSInX OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 



301 



A single small specimen, about 30 millimeters in length, was obtained at station 86(5, 

 in ti,"i fathoms, believed to be the young of Anarrhichas lupus, never before recorded south 

 of ( ape (Jod. 



ANARRHICHAS MINOR, Olai sen. (Figure 270.) 



I n,i i rhichas minor, ( >lafskn, Reise i Island, 1772. 6836, 592, tab. 12. — Steenstrop, Vidensk. Meddel. N'aturh. 



I . .1.11. Kjobenhavn, 1876.— I)ka\, Proo. U. S.Nat. Mas., ii, 1879,217. I rr, Forhandl. Vidensk. 



Selsk. Christiania, isso, 15. — Lllljeborg, Sverig. og Noigea Piske, 540. — GONTHER, Challenger Report, 



wii, 1887, 70. 

 Anarrhichas pantherinus, Zuiew, Nov. Act. Petrop., 17s 1 , 271, tab. 6. 

 Anarrhichas karrak, Bonnaterre, Ichthyologie, 17S8, 38. 

 Anarrhichas leopardus, Agassiz, in Spix. Pise. Bras., 1829, 92, tab. i.i. 



A species with many large, round, black spots. The vomerine teeth extend nearly or 

 quite a> far back as the palatine. 



It occurs both along the shoresand in the deep water. The Fish Commission has speci- 

 mens from off the mouth of Gloucester Harbor and from Eastport, Me. It Las also been 

 found off Norway at a depth of 200 fathoms. 



ANARRHICHAS LATIPRONS, Steenstrup and Hallgbimsson. (Figure 271. 1 



Anarrhichas latifrons, Srr. and Hallgr., Forh. Skand. Naturf., 3dio Mote, 1842, 647. — Coi.lktt, Vid. Selsk. 



l'orli.. Christiania, 1879, No. 1, 46, pi. n. — Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. II, 1879, p. 218. — LlLLJEBORG, 



op. cit. 540.— (ii n una.', Cballengei Report xxn, 1887, 71. 

 Anarrhichas (Lycichthys) latifrons, Gill, Baird's Ann. Rec. S. and I. for 1876 (1877), clxvii. 

 Anarrhichas denticulatus, Kroyer, Overs. Vidensk. Selsk. Kjobeuhavn, 1844, p. 140. — Gai.marp, Voy. en 



Scand., etc., Zodl., Poiss., 1845, pi. 12. 



A brown form, obscurely spotted with darker patches. The vomerine teeth do not ex- 

 tend nearly so far back as the palatines. 



TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS. 

 Species: Anarrhichas hitifrons, Stp. 



Current number of specimen . 



Locality 



Collett's measure- 

 ments, Clira. Vid. 

 Selsk. Foil]., 1879, 

 No. 1, p. 51. 



Oxfjord, West Fin- 

 mark. 



21845 



Banquereau. 



Extreme length 



Length (<> origin of middle caudal rays. . . . 

 Body: 



Greatest height. 



Greatest width 



Distance of anus from snout 



Height at anal origin 



Ch ast height of tail 



Head : 



Greatest length 



Greatest width 



Width of interorbital area 



Length of snout 



Lengl l. of postorbita] part of head 



i »th of upper jaw ' 



Length of mandible 



Distance fi i Bnout to center of orl.it - 



Diameter of eye 



Dorsal : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Length of first ra\ 



Length of longest ra\ (63d) 



Anal: 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Length <>i lust ray 



I i ngtl "i longi -.i :.i\ (38th) 



Caudal : 



Length of middle rays 



Length of external rays 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Dorsal 



Anal. .... 

 ' landal . . 

 Pei toral 



Milli- 

 meters. 



lOOths of 

 length. 



Milli- 

 meters. 



656 

 608 



318 

 130 

 21 



120 

 78 

 29 

 34 

 75 

 57 



110 



is 



1 16 

 75 

 77 

 15 

 18 

 22 



23.85 



11 os 

 10-18 



255 

 97 



21.38 

 3.45 



19.74 



12 83 



1.78 



5.59 



239 

 44 



192 

 110 

 57 

 68 



9.37 



7.24 

 3.29 



19. us 



12. 34 



101 

 111 

 85 



27 



205 

 875 



590 



455 



20 



52 



60 

 53 



220 

 126 

 77 

 46 

 17 

 26 



ninths of 

 length. 



24.33 

 9.25 



23 



4.19 



18.32 

 11.05 



5.44 

 6.49 



9.64 

 10.59 

 8.11 

 2.58 



19.56 



2.10 

 6.49 



1.91 



4. 96 



5. 73 

 5.06 



21 



12. 02 



•lli. palatine series of teeth in No. 21845 extends much farther back than the vomerine and is nearly or quite twice as long 

 as the latter. 



