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165. Psychrolutes paradoxus (iiinther. 



Eighty-seven specimens, from 0.75 to 2.4 inches lung, were secured by the Albatross in Otter Bay, 

 May 31, 1895, and at stations 4223, 422S, 4257, 4270, 4271, 4273, 4274, 4275, 4283, 4285, 4290, 4291. These 

 stations range from Puget Sound to Kodiak Island. 



Recorded by Bean (1882) from Kodiak Island. Gilbert (1895), as Psychrolutes :cbra, from stations 3213, 

 3215, to 3217, 3219, 3222, to 3225, 3257 to 3259, 3263, 3265, 3272, 3310, 3311, 3313, 3322, 3334, in shallow 

 water south of the Alaskan Peninsula, thence west to and through Unimak Pass, along the northern 

 shore of Unalaska Island and in Bristol Bay. Under the same name by Bean (1891) from station 2848, 

 between Unga and Nagai islands. Jordan & Gilbert (1899), stations 3640 off St. Paul Island and 3674 

 off Kodiak Island at Karl uk. 



Fig. 8S. — Psychrolutes paradoxus Giinther. 

 166. Gilbertidia sigolutes (Jordan & Starts). 



Head 2.7 in length; depth 3; eye 4.7 in head, equaling snout; interorbital 2; width of mouth 2; 

 dorsal vi, 21; anal 15; pectoral 15; ventral 3. 



Body short and tadpole-like, tapering rapidly from the very large head to the narrow caudal 

 peduncle; head very large, globular; snout short ami evenly rounded; interorbital very broad, gently 

 convex; mouth large, broad, jaws subequal; maxillary slender, weak, reaching front of eye; teeth 

 in jaws weak, apparently in a single row; vomer and palatines toothless. Dorsal fin much larger than 

 anal, partly concealed by loose skin; spinous dorsal entirely obliterated except the tips of the last 3 



Fig. 89. Gilbertidia sigolutes (Jordan A- Starts). 



spines, which project above the skin as mere tubercles; origin of anal nearly under fourth dorsal ray; 

 tips of last dorsal and anal rays overlapping base of caudal fin; caudal fin evenly rounded; pectoral 

 well developed, its upper rays longest, reaching origin of anal fin, the lower rays somewhat enlarged, 

 their tips free: ventrals small,' short, barely reaching vent; nostrils with conspicuous nasal flaps; 

 lower jaw, side of head, and side of body above pectoral Jin with conspicuous mucous pores. 



