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LYCODIN.E. 



a. The distance between the snout and the anns is 24,1 — 28% of the total length, the distance 

 of the dorsal fin from the snout, 18,2—20,6%. L. flagellicauda Jensen; p. 94. 



b. The distance between the snout and the anus is 21,6 °/o of the total length, the distance of the 

 dorsal fin from the snout 15,3%. L.ophjdium Jensen; p. 97. 



Lycodonus flagellicauda Jensen. 



Fig. 29—33 in text. 



1878. Lycodes mitrwna Collett, Fiske fra Nordhavs-Expeditionen 1878; P'orh. Vidensk. Sel.sk. Chria., 187S, 



No. 14, p. 74 (partim). 

 1880. L. niurctna Collett, The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition, Fishes, p. 116 (partim), PL IV, 



Fig. 29 & 31. 

 1887. L. murcena Gtinther, The Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, vol. XXII, Report on the Deep-Sea 



Fishes, p. 79, PI. XII, Fig. A. 

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

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

 1898. L.mttycEna Liitken, The Danish Ingolf-E.xpedition, II, i, p. 20 (partim). 

 1901. Lycenchelys flagellicauda Jensen, Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kbhvn., p. 210. 



The height over the anus is 3,4 — 4,4% of the total length. The head, whose 

 length is 12,7 — 14,5%') of the total length, is broad and flat, the trunk round; the 

 tail becomes very low immediately behind the anus and is of a round whip -shaped 

 form, onlv becoming compressed near the end. The front of the lower jaw lies a 

 good bit behind the tip of the upper. 8 pits for the lateral line along the upper jaw 

 and under the eye. The distance between the snout and the anus is 24,1— 28" o of the 

 total length^). The distance between the snout and the dorsal fin is 18,2-20,6":,, of 

 the total length. The colour uniformly gray-brown. The scales may extend to the 

 head, when the total length of the fish is ca. 200 mm., but usually they are much less 

 advanced at this (or a still greater) total length. The lateral line double, divided into 

 a ventral and a mediolateral branch, but of the latter only isolated pores are usually 

 to be seen along the median line of the side 5). Pyloric appendages not developed. 

 The size up to 217 mm. 



D. loi— 10941. A. 97— 1034). p. (13 — 14) 15 — 17. 



Distribution. The polar depths from Spitzbergen down towards Iceland and 

 the Fseroes, 459 — 1003 fathoms. 



1) In 4 inale.s 13,3—14,200, in 8 females 12,7—13,800, in 2 young .specimens 14,1 — i4,5°o. 



2) In 4 males 25— 26,80/0, in S females 24,4—2800, in 2 young specimens 24,1 — 25,40/0. 



3) Figure 31 in Collett (N. North-Atlantic Exped., Fishes) .shows a whole row of pores along the middle of the side, 

 but I have not seen anything similar. 



4) According to Collett: D. loi — 108; A. 97—103. In two specimens I have found: I). loS— 109; A. 98- 102. 



