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jaw projecting; both jaws with very strong, unequal, cardiform | 



teeth, some of the teeth caninelike, most of them depressible; , 



vomer and palatines usually with strong teeth; gill openings I 



comparatively large, in the lower axil of the pectorals; pseudo- j 



branchiae present; no gill rakers; gills three; skin mostly j 



smooth, naked, with many dermal flaps about the head; spinous ; 



dorsal of three isolated, tentaclelike spines on the head, and i 



three smaller ones behind, which form a continuous fin; second j 



dorsal moderate, similar to the anal; pectoral members scarcely 



geniculated, each with two actinosts and with elongate pseudo- , 



brachia; veutrals jugular, I, 5, widely separated, large, much | 



enlarged in the young. Young with the head spinous. Pyloric 



■caeca present. Vertebrae numerous, about 30 in number. 



Living on sea bottoms, at moderate depths; remarkable for 



great voracity. 



309 Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 



Angler; Goosefish; Bellows Fish 



Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. X, I. 236, 1758; Mitchill, 

 Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 465, 1815; Gunther, Oat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus. Ill, 179, 1861; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex lust. XI, 2, 1879; Jor- 

 dan & Gilbert, Bull. 16. U. S. Nat. Mus. 844, 1883; Bean, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 373, 1897; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. 0. 1897, 109, 

 1898; Jordan & Evermann. Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2713. 1898; 

 IV, pi. CCCLXXXYIII, fig. 952 (skeleton), 1900; Sherwood & 

 Edwards, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1901, 31, 1901. 



Lophius piscator Mitchill. Rep. Fish. N. Y. 28, 1814, Long Island. 



Lophius americanus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XII, 380, 

 1837: De Kay. N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 162, pi. 28, fig. 87, 1842; Storer, 

 Hist. Fish. Mass. 101, pi. XVIII, fig. 2, 1867. 



Body depressed, tapering, scarcely longer than head; humeral 

 spine with points, of which the posterior is the longest; head sur- 

 rounded with a fringe of barbels; top of head in young with 

 many strong spines; anterior dorsal spine elongate, fleshy at tip. 

 D. I-I-I, III-IO; A. 9. 



Brownish, mottled, below white; mouth from behind the hyoid 

 bone immaculate; pectorals and caudal black at tip; peritoneum 

 black. North Atlantic, on both coasts; generally common, from 

 North Carolina northward. A fish of singular ugliness of 

 appearance. 



