DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 



301 



A single small specimen, about 30 millimeters in length, was obtained at station 866, 

 iu 65 tathoms, believed to be the young of Anarrhichas lupus, uever before recorded south 

 of Gape Cod. 



ANARRHICHAS MINOR, Olafsen. (Figure 270.) 



Anairkkhas minor, Oi.af.sen, Roiso i Island, 1772, (iSSfc, 592, tab. 42. — Steenstiujp, Vidensk. Meddel. Naturh. 



Foreu. Kjol)e!iliavii, 1876. — Bean, Pi-dc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ii, 1879, 217. — Colleit, Forliaudl. Videusk. 



Selsk. Chri.stiauia, 1880, 45. — Lilljebouc, Sverig. og Norges Fiske, 540. — Gunthek, Challenger Report, 



XXII, 1887, 70. 

 Anarrhiclias jmitthcriiinis, ZriEW, Nov. Act. Petroj)., 1781, 271, tab. h. 

 Jiian-lihhus karrak, Bonnatkrue, Iclithyologie, 1788, 38. 

 Anarrhichas Uopardm, Agassiz, iu .Si)ix. Pise. Bras., 1829, 92, tal). i.i. 



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

 quite as far back as the i)alatiue. 



It occurs both along the shores and iu the deep water. The Fish Commission has speci- 

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

 found off Xorway at a depth of 200 fathoms. 



ANARRHICHAS LATIFRONS, Steenstrup and Hallgrimsson. (Figure 271.) 



Anarrhichas latifroiis, Stp. and Hallgr., Forh. Skand. Naturf., 3die Mote, 1842, 647. — Collett, Vid. Selsk. 



Forb., Cliri.stiania, 1879, No. 1, 46, pi. II.— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ii, 1879, p. 218.— Lilljeborg, 



op. cit. 540. — Gunthek, Challenger Report xxii, 1887, 71. 

 Anarrhichas (Lydi-hihijs) latifrons, Gill, Baird's Ann. Rec. S. an<l I. for 1876 (1877), CLXVil. 

 Anarrhichas dcnticiilaiiis, Kroyer, Overs. Videusk. Selsk. Kjobeuhavu, 1844, p. 140. — Gaimakd, Voy. en 



Scand., etc., Zoiil., Poiss., 1815, pi. 12. 



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

 tend nearly so far back as the palatines. 



TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS. 

 Species: Anarrhichas latifrons, Stp. 



Current number of apecimen . 



Localitv - 



CoUett's measure- 

 ments, Chra. Vid. 

 Selsk. Forh., 1879, 

 No. 1, p. 51. 



Oxford, West Fin- 

 mark. 



Banquereau. 



Milli- 

 meters. 



lOOths of 

 length. 



Milli- 

 meters. 



lOOths of 

 length. 



Extreme length 



Length to origin of middle eaudal rays. . . . 

 Body: 



Greatest height 



Greatest width 



Distance of jinus from snout 



Height at an.ll origin 



Least height of tail 



Head: 



Greatest length 



Greatest width 



Width (»r interorbital area 



Length of snout , 



Lengt h of postorbital part of head 



Length *^i' upper jaw " 



Length of mandible 



Distance i'rora snout to center of orbit- 

 Diameter of eye 



Dorsal : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Lengt h of first rily 



Length of longest rjiy (C:Jd) 



Anal: 



Distance from snout 



Length of b:iae 



Length of tirst ray 



Length of longest ray (38th) 



Caudal : 



Length of middle rays 



Length of exteru.al rays 



Pectonil : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



DorsaL T 



Anal 



Caudal 



Pectoral 



656 

 808 



145 



318 

 130 

 21 



120 

 78 

 29 

 34 

 75 

 57 



136 

 75 

 77 

 45 

 18 

 22 



23.85 



1108 

 1048 



255 

 97 



24.33 

 9.25 



21.38 

 3.45 



19.74 



12.83 

 4.78 

 5.59 



239 

 44 



192 

 116 

 57 



23 

 4.19 



18.32 



11.05 



5.44 



6.49 



9.37 



7.24 

 3.29 



7.89 



22.37 

 12.34 



101 

 111 



85 

 27 



205 

 875 



590 



455 



20 



52 



CO 

 53 



220 

 126 

 77 

 46 

 17 

 20 



9.61 

 10.59 

 8.11 

 2.58 



19.56 



2.10 

 0.49 



1.91 

 4.90 



5.73 

 5.06 



21 

 12.02 



* The p.tlatino series of teeth in No. 21845 extends much farther back than the vomerine and is nearly or qoit^ twice as long 

 as the latter. 



