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FISHERY BULLETIN OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 





Figure 236. — Arctic sculpin (Cottunculus microps), continental slope off southern New England. 



Drawing by H. L. Todd. 



From Goode and Bean. 



has been taken at numerous localities on the con- 

 tinental shelf and slope to abreast of New Jersey 

 in depths of 122 to 487 fathoms. Only two of the 

 earlier published records fall within the geographic 

 limits covered by this report, one in the extreme 

 southeast corner of the basin of the Gulf (latitude 

 42°23', longitude 66°23') in 141 fathoms, the other 

 in the eastern channel between Browns and 

 Georges Banks (latitude 42°15', longitude 65°48') 

 in 122 fathoms. But we trawled one about 2 

 inches long, on the northern slope of Georges 

 Bank, in 120 fathoms of water, on July 24, 1931, 

 which (with earlier captures) shows that it is to 

 be expected anywhere in the deep basin of our 

 Gulf, at depths greater than 100 fathoms. 6 

 Nothing is known of its habits. 



Sea raven Hemitripterus americanus (Gmelin) 

 1789 



Red sculpin; Sea sculpin; Raven; King 

 o'Norway 



Jordan and Evermann, 1896-1900, p. 2023. 



Description. — No one would be likely to confuse 

 a sea raven with any other sculpin, for it is a 

 "most remarkable looking fish," as Jordan and 

 Evermann remarked. 7 It is stouter bodied than 

 our other common sculpins, about three and three- 

 fourths times as long as it is deep (counting caudal 

 fin), with a very large head. Both the jaws of 

 its wide mouth are armed with several rows of 

 sharp teeth that are noticeably longer and stouter 



• Goode and Bean, Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl; vol. 30, 1895, p. 270, list 

 the earlier American records. 



' Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., Pt. 2, 1898, p. 2023. 



Figure 237. — Sea raven (Hemitripterus americanus), Halifax, Nova Scotia. From Goode. Drawing by H. L. Todd. 



