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44a. Vomer and palatine with teeth ; preopercular spines 

 antler-like ; head depressed ; skin smooth and firm. 

 Range : Kodiak Island to San Diego, California. Ma- 

 rine. Abundant. 

 Bullhead 257. Leptocottus armatus armatus Girard 



44b. Vomer and palatine without teeth ; preopercular spines 

 not antler-like, but short, there being 2 diverging spines 

 at angle of preopercular bone ; skin loose and lax ; 

 head of normal shape. Range : Puget Sound. Marine. 

 Not rare. 

 258. Malacocottus kincaidi Gilbert and Thompson 



29b. Gill membranes free from the isthmus or else forming a 

 broad fold across it. 



45a. Palatine without teeth; vomer with teeth. 



46a. Maxillary reaches to under pupil but not to the pos- 

 terior margin of the eye; skeleton spongy; lower jaw 

 equal to upper or a little projecting; preopercular 

 spines 3 or 4, the one at the angle sharp and curved 

 upward. 



47a. Dorsal IX, 15; anal 13; pelvics I, 3; head with bony 

 tubercles ; body with bony tubercles along base of 

 dorsal. Range : Bering Sea to Puget Sound. Ma- 

 rine. Not rare. 

 Woolly Sculpin 259. Dasycottus sctiger Bean 



47b. Dorsal VI or VII, 13; anal 8 to 11; pelvics I, 2; 

 pectoral 20; body and head smooth, no granulations, 

 tubercles, or filaments present. Range : Bering Sea, 

 Alaska and in great depths off California. Marine. 

 Rare. 

 260. Zcsticelus profiindorum (Gilbert) 



46b. Maxillary reaches beyond eye ; skeleton hard and firm ; 

 lower jaw equal to or a little shorter than upper, in- 

 cluded ; preopercular spines straighter, the one at the 

 angle without a distinct upward curve. Range : Bering 

 Sea to Puget Sound. Marine. Common. 



Great Sculpin. Fig. 12 



261. Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalu-s (Pallas) 



45b. Palatine teeth present ; vomer with teeth. 



48a. Anus immediately in advance of the anal fin (in very 

 young Blennicottus globiceps the anus is located about 

 Yi of the distance in front of the anal fin between the 

 origin of the anal and the insertion of the pelvic fin) ; 

 penis very slender and flexible ; the first 1 to 3 anal 

 rays enlarged in the male. 



49a. Preopercular spine unbranched. 



50a. Body covered with prickly scales at all ages ; head 

 pointed anteriorly ; cirri of head single or rarely 

 doubled ; no cirri on body above lateral line ; dorsal 

 spines IX; first 2 anal rays of male enlarged, sub- 



