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in Great Harbor (Smith, 1898). There is an albino form of this fish, 

 of which four specimens were found prior to 1879. (Bean, 1903). 



Season in R. I.: Specimen from Rhode Island (Goode, 1879). 



Size: Twenty-four inches. 



ANARHICHADID^. The Wolf-Fishes. 

 174. Anarhichas lupus (Linnteus). Wolf-fish; Catfish. 



Geog. Dist.: North Atlantic south to Long Island and France. Found 

 on coast of Maine and Massachusetts (Kendall, 1908). Frequent in 

 deep waters of Massachusetts Bay (Bean, 1903). 



Season in R. I.: In the U. S. National Museum is a cast of a specimen 

 taken by the U. S. Fish Commission at Coxswain's Lodge, R. I., July 

 25, 1875 (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 32). Reported from Narragan- 

 sett Bay by R. I. Fish Com., 1899. 



Reproduction: The spawning season is from November to January. 

 The yellowish, opaque eggs are laid in masses on the bottom. They 

 are the largest known marine fish eggs, their diameter being about 

 i inch (5.5 to 6 mm.). They have a large oil globule. The larva on 

 hatching is about ^ inch long (12 mm.). The yolk sac is absorbed in 

 3^ months (middle of May), when the fish is | inch long (17 to 20 mm.). 

 (Ehrenbaum, Nordisches Plankton, 4, 1905, 92; Mcintosh and Mas- 

 terman, British Marine Food Fishes, 1897, 200; Mcintosh and Prince, 

 Trans. Roy. Soc, Edinburgh, XXV, 1890, 874.) 

 Rate of Growth: Several specimens thirty inches long were taken in 

 65 fathoms south of Rhode Island. (Goode, 1880.) 



ZOARCID^. The Eel-Pouts. 

 175. Zoarces anguillaris (Peck). Eel-Pout; Sea-Pout; Ling. 



Geog. DisT.: Delaware to Labrador. Common north of Cape Cod; 

 caught in large numbers with cod off Sandy Hook (Bean, 1903). 



Habitat: Deep water. 



Season in R. I.: Taken frequently in November and December in beam- 

 trawls with flatfish, especially in the deep water of the East Passage 

 of Narragansett Bay. Also taken at Block Island. It is probably 

 present the year round in deep off-shore waters. 



Reproduction: The nearly related European species, Z. viviijarus, pro- 

 duces its young alive during the winter months of December, January, 

 and February. The young are then about two inches long (40 to 50 



