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Lycenchelys Oill. 

 Lycenchelys Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1SS4, p. 180 {mitrcBua). 



The bodv is very elongated (ang nil lit" or in), the height over the anns going ca. 

 16—24 times in the total length. Teeth on the intermaxillary and mandible, vomer 

 and palatines. Lower jaw with on t barbnles. Scales small. Lateral line ventral or 

 mediolateral, or both ventral and mediolateral. Branchiost egal rays 6. 



From the waters of North America 3 species of this genns have been described, namely: 

 Lycenchelys verrillii Goode & Bean , off the east coast of the United States (34° 39' 40"— 42° 33' N.L. 

 68° 22'— 75° 14' 40" W.L.), 75 — 603 fathoms; Lycenchelys paxillus Goode & Bean, off the east coast of the 

 United States (35° 45' 30"— 42° 48' N.L. 63° 07'— 74° 48' W.L.), 263—904 fathoms; Lycenchelys porifer Gil- 

 bert, off Lower California, 857 fathoms"). 



From the Enropean and Greenland waters are at present known 4 species, distingnished from 

 one another in the following manner: 



L 7 pits for the lateral line along the upper jaw and under the eye. 



A. Distance of the dorsal fin from the snout is less than 20% of the total length. 



a. Length of the head is less than 14% of the total length. Colour uniform. (The cold 

 area, off west Norway, east Iceland, and in the Fteroe Channel; 340—620 fathoms). 



L. muroena Coll.; p. 82. 



b. Length of the head is more than 14 "/o of the total length. Dark spotted colouration. 

 (Northern East Greenland; ca. 160 fathoms). L. kolthoffi Jensen; p. 88. 



B. Distance of the dorsal fin from the snout is 21 % or more of the total length. (Skager 

 Rak, south and west Norway; 70 — 300 fathoms). L. sarsii Coll.; p. 86. 



II. 8 (larger) pits for the lateral line along the upper jaw and under the eye. (Davis Straits; 393 fathoms). 



L. ingolfianiis Jensen; p. 90. 



Lycenchelys muraena Collett. 



Fig- 15 — 19 i" text. 



1878. Lycodes murcena Collett, Fi.ske fra den Norske Nordhavs-Exped. 1S76-77; Forh. Vidensk. Seksk. 



Chria. 1878, No. 4, p. 15. 

 1878. L.murce7ia Collett, Fiske fra Nordhavs-Expeditionen 1878; Forh. Vidensk. Selsk. Chria. 1878, No. 14, 



p. 74 (partim). 

 1880. L. murcena Collett, The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition, Fishe.s, p. 116 (partim), PI. IV, 



Fig. 30 (nee Fig. 29 &: 31). 



1891. L. murcena Lilljeborg, Sveriges och Norges Fiskar, II, p. 25 (partim). 



1895. L.mnrcena Smitt, Skandinaviens Fiskar, II, p. 616 (partim) (non Fig. 152). 



1901. Lycenchelys murcena Jensen, Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kblivn., p. 214. 



t) Concernin.c; these species, see Goode & Beau: Oceanic Ichthyology, 1S95, p. 309—312; also Jordan & Ever- 

 niann; The Fishes of North and Middle America, Part III, 1898, p. 2471). 



