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northern part of Davis Strait, just south of the Greenland-Baffin Land Ridge." But there 

 is no report of it either in the region of Hudson Bay, along the Atlantic coast of Labrador, 

 or on the east coast of Newfoundland j nor did any of the many cod that we saw caught 

 by hook and line or nets in the summer of 1900 along the outer Labrador coast show any 

 evidence of attack by Hags. Apart from the Davis Strait record just mentioned, the most 

 northerly known stations for it on the American coast are the Grand Banks and the south 

 coast of Newfoundland, where its eggs have been trawled."' Type of bottom, temperature 

 and salinity are such that it is also to be expected in the deep trough of the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence, though we found no definite record of it there. 



To the southward it is generally distributed at appropriate depths wherever the bot- 

 tom is suitable: over the continental shelf and down the continental slope along Nova 

 Scotia, throughout the Gulf of Maine, along the seaward slope of Georges Bank, and off 

 southern New England and New York, where specimens have been taken at many locali- 

 ties by trawl or otherwise, at depths of 100 to 250 fathoms and deeper. Apparently this 

 marks the limit of its common occurrence in this direction, however, for the only records 

 of its occurrence south of the latitude of New York are: one specimen taken off Delaware 

 Bay in 1 26 fathoms, and one or more in 1 78 fathoms off Cape Fear, North Carolina, many 

 years ago,'" 



Synonyms and References:*" 



Myxine glutinosa Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 1758: 650 (Atlant. Oc, grouped among the worms) ; Muller, O. F., 

 Prod. Fauna Danica, 1776: 227 (Denmark) ; Pennant, Brit. ZooL, 4, 1777: 39, pi. 20, fig. 5 (habits, ill.) ; 

 Fabricius, Fauna Groenl., 1780: 344 ("rari in mari Groenlandico") ; Retzius, Fauna Sueciae, I, 1780: 

 302 (refs., habits, west, seas); Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i (6), 1790-1791: 3082 (descr., Atlant. Oc.) ; Ret- 

 zius, Svenska. Vet. Akad. Handl., 11, 1790: I lo, pi. 4 {Myxine and Petromyzo?i considered more worm- 

 like than fish-like; plate referred to is not in copy seen) ; Abildgaard, Schr. Ges. naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 

 10, 1792: 193, 244, pi. 4 (descr., ill.; a fish, not a worm) ; Bloch, Schr. Ges. naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 10, 

 1792: 244 (disc, of earlier accounts; believed same as Pholis of Aristotle, therefore in Mediterranean, 

 Greece); Fleming, Hist. Brit. Anim., 1828: 164 (descr., habits, England); Cuvier, Regne Anim., 

 2nd Ed., 1829: 406 (North Sea); Nilsson, Prod. Ichthyol. Skand., 1832: 123 (habits, type of bottom, 

 feeding, north. Norway) ; Johnston, London's Mag. Nat. Hist., (5, 1833: 15 (Scotland) ; Jenyns, Manual 

 Brit. Vert. Anim., /, 1835: 413 (Ireland); Muller, J., Vergl. Anat. Myxinoiden, i, 1835: 3 (history), 

 15 (class., diag.. North Sea, Norway, Sweden, Greenland), 17 (footnote considers Bloch's reference of it 

 to Mediterranean on basis of Aristotle incorrect) ; Templeton, Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist., 1, I 837: 

 413 (Ireland) ; Cuvier, Regne Anim., Poiss., 183 8-1 843: 383, pi. 120, fig. 3 (ill.) ; Kr0yer, Danmarks 

 Fisk., _5, 1838-1853: 1068 (descr., habits, Denmark); Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. Amphib. Rept., 2, 

 1839: 338; Fries, Ekstrom and Sundevall, Skand. Fisk., 6, 1840: 121, pi. 28 (descr., ill., Scandinavia); 

 Gray, List Fish. Brit. Mus., Chondropt., i, 1851: 147 (Norw.iy, Gt. Brit.); White, List Spec. Brit. 

 Mus., Fish., 8, 1851: 145 (north. England, Scotland); Nilsson, Skad. Fauna Fisk., 4, 1855: 750 (not 

 seen) ; Thompson, M., Nat. Hist. Ireland, 4, 1856: 267 (Ireland, Scotland) ; Thomson, .■\., Art. "Ovum," 

 in Todd's Cyclop. Anat. Physiol., 5 (suppl. vol.), 1859: 50, fig. 33, c, d (earliest descr. of egg, ill.); 



37. Lat. 66° 37' N., 450 meters, temp. 3.12° C; Jensen, Rapp. Cons, explor. Mer., ^9, 1926: 98. 



38. Dean, Mem. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 2 (2), 1900: 34. 



39. One specimen from this lot is in the Harv. Mus. Comp. Zool. 



40. Myxine, as representative of its order (subclass in some schemes of classification), has been the subject of many 

 anatomical accounts and discussions, in reports of original observations as well as in general textbooks, etc. This 

 list is confined to such citations as bear directly on its classification, on its habits or on its distribution. 



