Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 2447 



numerous dark spots and reticulations, the spots most distinct below front 

 of dorsal; fins dark; caudal tipped with reddish. Length 3 to 4 feet. 

 North Atlantic, south to Cape Cod and France; rather common both in 

 America and Europe. A large voracious fish, not valued as food. The 

 American form, vomcrinus, seems to be fully identical with the European. 

 (En.) {Lupus, a wolf.) 



Anarhichas lupus, Linn^cs, Syst. 'Ns^t., Ed. x, 247, 1758, no definite locality ; after Artedi ; 



GiJNTHER, Cat., in, 208, 1861; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 781, 1883; Goode & Bean, 



Oceanic Icbthyology, 299, 1896. 

 Anarhichas St rigosus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1144,1788, British Sea. 

 Anarrhichas voinerinux, AoAssiz in Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 265, pi. 18, flg. i, 1S67, Cusk 



Rocks, between Boston and Cape Ann. 



2804. ANARHICHAS LEPTURUS, Bean. 



(Alaska Wolf- Fish.) 



Head4i; depth 5. D. LXXXI; A. 52; C. 20 or 21. Head moderate; 

 maxillary ^ as long as head; nostril nearer eye than mouth. Four 

 large canines in the upper jaw and 5 in the lower, all of them strongly 

 recurved; behind the canines in each jaw are a few sharp, conical teeth, 

 also recurved; palatine teeth in 2 series, 4 in the outer and 5 in the inner 

 series, those in the outer series the longer; vomerine teeth in 2 series, the 

 vormerine patch beginning in advance of the palatine, and extending 

 farther back than the latter; head and finsscaleless; median line of body 

 and all of tail with small, Avidely separated scales. Dark brown, without 

 bands or spots; belly pale, clouded with very dark brown. (Bean.) 

 Coasts of Alaska, south to Vancouver Island; common about the Aleu- 

 tian Islands, and perhaps identical with Anarhichas orientaUs. (Act? ro?, 

 slender; ovpd, tail.) 



Anarrhichas lepturus, Bean, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1879, 212, St. Michaels, Alaska; .JOE. 



DAN &. Gilbert, Synopsis, 782, 1883; Goode & Bean, Ocean. Ichth., 299, 1896. 

 ? Anarrhichas orientaUs, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., in, 77, 1811, Kamchatka. 



2805. ANARHICHAS ORIEXTALIS, PaUas. 



This species, if correctly described, would dift'er from Anarhichas lep- 

 turus in the very large head, 2| times in total length of body; in the 

 absence of scales; in having the nostril midway between eye and mouth, 

 and in having 6 canines in the upper jaw. Color plain brown, D. LXXXIV; 

 C. 17. Coast of Kamchatka. (Pallas.) As the first of these characters is 

 certainly erroneous, it is likely that the others are also, and that this 

 Species is not distinct from Anarhichax lepturus. {orientaUs, eastern.) 



Anarrhi<;has orientaUs, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., in, 77, 1811, Kamchatka. 

 ? Anarrhichas lepturus. Bean, Proc. TJ. S. Kat. Mus., n, 1879, 212, St. Michaels. 



926. ANARRHICHTHYS, Ayres. 



Anarrhichthys, Atres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci., i, 1855, 32 (ocellatus). 



Body elongate, tapering backward into a very long and compressed 

 tail, around which the dorsal and anal arc confluent with the caudal. 

 Scales rudimentary ; no lateral line. Dorsal high, composed entirely of 



