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Localit. fra Nordh. Exped. Jan Maven; Spits- 

 bergen. 



Locality (North Atl. Expedition): 

 and Spitzbergen, 



• lan Maven 



Bemærkninger til Synonymien. Slægten Triglops 



opstilledes at' Reinh. sen. allerede i Overs, lor 1829 — 30, 

 Kgl. 1). Vid. Selsk. Nat, Math. Afh. 5 B. p. LII (Kbhvn. 

 1832) etter et Exemplar fra Grønland; men forst i 1838 

 blev den i samme Tidsskrifts 7de Bind meddelt sit Arts- 

 navn. Den viser i flere Henseender en Tilnærmelse til 

 Slægten Trigla, saaledes i Tandbygningen, Hovedets Form, 

 de fintandede Skraalinier nedad Legemets Sider, og de 

 nedtil stærkt fri Pectoralstraaler. 



T. pingdii er ilen eneste hidtil sikkert bekjendte Art 

 af denne Slægt. Ligesom det var Tilfældet med Centrkl. 

 uncinatus, blev den af Reinli, kun ganske kort characteri- 

 seret: derimod gav Krøyer i 1844 (Naturli. Tidsskr. 2den 

 R. Iste B.) eiter det i Kbhvns. Musæum foreliggende Ma- 

 teriale en udforligere Diagnose af saavel Slægt. som Art. 

 og efter disse ere Giinthers Diagnoser i Gat. Fishes Brit. 

 Mus. vol. 2 ( 1 860) affattede. da endnu intet Indiv. forelaa 

 i British Museum. I 1864 erholdt Malmgren et Individ 

 ved Spitsbergen; senere er den gjentagne Gange bleven 

 kortelig omtalt fra Norge, ligesom Dr. Liitken har nærmere 

 omhandlet de i Mnsæet i Kbhvn. opbevarede' Exemplarer 

 fra Grønland i Vid. Medd. Naturli. Foren. Kbhvn. for 

 Aaret 1876. 



Af Kroyer er den bleven afbildet i Gaimards Plan- 

 cheværk (Voy. Scaud. Lap. etc. 1838 — 40. Poiss. pl. 1), 

 men denne Atbildning er i flere Henseender ufuldkommen. 

 En udforligere Beskrivelse af T. pingdii er hidtil intet- 

 steds bleven leveret. 



Beskrivelse. Legemsbygning. Hele Legemet er oven- 

 til, ligesom Hovedet, tæt beklædt med fine Granulationer, 

 og nedenfor Sidelinjen med tandede Hudfolder ; blot Gjælle- 

 membranen er nøgen. Pectoralerne og Øjnene ere forholdsvis 

 særdeles store. Hannerne ere kjendelige ved sin overor- 

 dentlig store Analpapille. der ved Granden omtrent har en 

 Lindsediameters Tykkelse, og er rettet noget fremad; dens 

 Længde udgjør omtrent en Orbitaldia meters Bredde. Halen 

 er temmelig lang og uddragen, og Haleroden er forholds- 

 vis lav. 



Remarks on the Synonymy. — The genus Triglops 

 was first established by Reinhardt sen., in Kgl. D. Vid. 

 Selsk. Nat, Math. Afh. Overs, for 1829—30, 5 B. p. LII 

 (Kl)hvn. 1832), from a specimen taken on the coast of Green- 

 land; it did not however receive its specific name before 

 1838, in the 7th voluinne of the said Journal. This 

 genus approximates in many of its characters the genus 

 Trigla; lor instance, in the dentition, the form of the 

 head, the oblique serrate lines traversing the sides of 

 the body, and in the pectoral rays being to a great 

 extent free. 



T. pingdii is the only species of this genus with cer- 

 tainty known to have been observed. As had been the 

 case with Cmtrid. wncinodus, its generic characters were 

 but briefly set forth by Reinhardt sen.; on the other hand. 

 Kroyer. in 1844. from materials in the Zoological Museum 

 at Copenhagen, gave a detailed diagnosis both of the 

 genus and the species, which is the source whence Gunther 

 has furnished his diagnosis in Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 

 vol. 2 (1860). as the British Museum had no example of 

 the species. In 1864 Malmgren obtained a specimen from 

 the coast of Spitzbergen ; since then it has been repeatedly 

 mentioned as occurring off the Norwegian coast; and in 1876 

 Dr. Liitken treated of the specimens preserved in the Zoo- 

 logical Museum of Copenhagen in Vid. Medd. Naturli. 

 Foren. Kbhvn. for that year. 



The species has been figured by Kroyer in one 

 of the plates to Gainiard's work (Yoy. Scand. Lap. etc. 

 1838 — 40; Poiss. pi. 1); but this representation is in 

 several respects faulty. A detailed description of T. pin- 

 gdii has not as yet been furnished. 



General description. Stntrtitrr of the Both/. — Body, 

 above, and head, closely studded with minute granula- 

 tions; dentate membranous folds below the lateral line, 

 branchial membrane only smooth. Pectorals and eyes com- 

 paratively large. Male individuals easily distinguished by 

 the remarkable size of the anal papilla, which projects 

 slightly forward; its thickness at base about equal to the 

 transverse diameter of the lens, and its length, to the 

 diameter of the orbit. Tail rather long and elongate, 

 slender at base. 



