336 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Sea snail, Neoliparis atlanticus Jordan and Evermann 



The sea snail, previously unknown offshore, has recently been taken on Georges 

 and on Browns Banks. Its range has recently been found to extend as far southward 

 as the offing of Atlantic City, N. J. (Lat. 39°20'N.). Most of the specimens were 

 found living in scallop shells (Pecten magellanicus) , as is so often the case. 



Striped sea snail, Liparis liparis (Linnaeus) 



This sea snail was formerly known as far southward as New York but the Alba- 

 tross II has taken it off Delaware Bay and the Grampus off Assateague, Va. (Welsh, 

 1915, p. 2). 



Red-winged sea robin, Prionotus strigatus (Cuvier) 



A specimen was taken off Monhegan, Maine, in 40 fathoms, in an otter trawl 

 November 19, 1933. This is the most northerly record for this straggler in the 

 Gulf of Maine. 



Remora, Remora remora (Linnaeus) 



Recent Gulf of Maine records of this species include one found on the bottom of a 

 lobster trap in Portland Harbor in 1931, probably brought in by a schooner from the 

 West Indies ; one found sucking to the gills of a blue shark (Prionace glauca) that was 

 caught on the northeast edge of Georges Bank, August 1, 1931 ; one in Cape Cod Bay 

 in September 1934, and one off Provincetown in August 1935, taken by C. W. Lowes 

 on blue sharks; also two specimens, 6 and 17 inches long, respectively, taken on 

 August 3, 1932, 220 miles east-southeast of Cape Ann. Previously it had been 

 recorded only once from the Gulf of Maine. 



Rock eel, Pholis gunnellus (Linnaeus) 



Recent records show that the rock eel occurs in considerable numbers on the offshore 

 banks in the Gulf of Maine down to at least 40 fathoms and occasionally even to 100 

 fathoms (Schroeder, 1933, p. 5) as well as inshore. So many have been found in the 

 stomachs of cod and pollock caught on Nantucket Shoals, Georges Bank, Browns 

 Bank, Cashes Ledge, etc., that it must be an important food of these two species. 



The range of the rock eel recently has been found to extend soutb to the latitude 

 of Delaware Bay, where in February 1930 Albatross II trawled two specimens in 23 

 and 38 fathoms, respectively. 



Snake blenny, Lumpenus lampetraeformis (Walbaum) 



Recent captures, by Albatross II, of adult snake blennies (one specimen each) 

 off Mount Desert, off Boone Island, and on Stellwagen Bank, in depths ranging from 

 28 to 88 fathoms, added to earlier records from Massachusetts Bay and from the Bay 

 of Fundy region, show that this species is generally distributed over the gulf, as records 

 of its larvae had suggested. So slender and active is tbis fish that it can easily escape 

 through the meshes of any of the nets used by commercial fishermen, hence it is seldom 

 reported. 



Color notes taken from a 12-inch specimen are as follows: The body had brown 

 markings on a whitish ground, the head being pale brown. The dorsal fin was 

 marked obliquely with 18 pale bars, the caudal transversely with 8. The anal rays 

 were pale brown against a colorless membrane, the ventrals white, while the pectorals 

 were tinged with brown. 



