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Sub-class Teleostei. Cottoid^. 



codfish in deep water, and is an unwelcome intruder upon the lines 

 and bait and time of the fishermen. It is easily distinguished from 

 the other Sculpin by the odd fringes or cirrhi about the eyes and 

 ranging from the lower jaw, which, with the indentations, ridges 

 and spines give it a singular expression of countenance, if a Sculpin 

 can be allowed to have a countenance. 



Specific Description. Head large and broad and measuring from 

 the point of the lips to the point of the operculum nearly or quite a 

 quarter of the whole fish. Sometimes it is of a blood red, sometimes 

 of a yellowish or pink purple with variegated markings of a brown or 

 some other darker color with white. The mouth is very large when 

 opened. Jaws of the same length, from the lower one there hang 

 about a dozen fleshy fringes or cirrhi, giving it a singular appear- 

 ance, cardlike teeth are found on the jaws, vomer palatine bones 

 and the pharynx, but the tongue is quite large and smooth. The 

 snout presents, a little above it, a ridge on each side with several 

 spinous projections. Eyes moderate in size but the orbitar pro- 

 jections are large, and a fringe is attached to them composed of the 

 fleshy cirrhi before mentioned They are also marked with white 

 vertical lines. Pupils black. Iris yellow, tinged with brown. 



The preoperculum has two spines on its posterior angle, the su- 

 perior one curving upward and backwards. The operculum is sub 

 triangular in shape, rather small, ending in a blunt point and has 

 ridges on its surface. 



The body is oblong, in outline cylindrical, and as Storer observes 

 " granulated, and studded with innumerable tubercles which are 

 quite large upon the back and very small or almost imperceptible 

 below the lateral line." The dorsal has somewhat the appearance 

 of three fins. It rises just behind the spinous processes of the 

 head. The first ray is long while the next, fourth, fifth and sixth 

 are much shorter, and the next following rise again. Small appen- 

 dages like tentacula are suspended from the tops of those rays. 

 The second dorsal rise immediately behind, the first ray shortest 

 and the others gradually increasing in length giving a sub quad- 

 rangular form to the fin. The rays project above the membrane. 

 The Pectorals are large and the rays very marked and distinct. 

 There are 18 of them in all, the first lowest one shortest and in- 

 creasing in length as you count upward, giving the fin an oval out- 



