Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America, 24,77 



942. GYMNELIS, Reinhardt. 



Gymnelis, Reinhardt, Dansk. Yidensk. Solsk. Af Iiandl., vii, 131, 1838 (viride). 

 Cepolophis, Kadp, in Archiv fur Katurgesch. 1856, 96 {viridis). 



Body elongate, naked. Vertical fms without spines; ventral fins none. 

 Small conical teeth on the jaws, vomer, and palatines. Gill openings very 

 narrow. No air bladder; pyloric c.eca none; no anal papilla. Size small. 

 Cold seas. Two or 3 species known: G. pictus, from the Antarctic, and 

 G. viridis, which ranges widely in Arctic waters, and with which the very 

 dubious (r. stigma is probably identical, {yvuvoi, naked; fy^eAu;, eel.) 



a. Dorsal fin inserted close behind pectoral, its distance from it much less than diam- 

 eter of eye; no ocellus on dorsal fin. viridis, 2840. 

 aa. Dorsal ttn inserted an eye's diameter behind pectoral; a large black spot, ocellated 

 with white, on dorsal fln above vent; other ocelli sometimes present. 



STIGMA, 2841. 

 2840. GYMNELIS VIRIDIS (Fabrieius). 



Head about 6i; depth about 13; eye 7 in head. D. 100; A. 80. Snout 

 subconical, longer than the eye; jaws equal; mouth oblique; maxillary 

 reaching beyond eye; teeth rather small, conical, in a single series on each 

 side, forming a patch anteriorly; distance from snout to vent 2^ times 

 length of head. Pectoral rounded, inserted low, its length h'ss than \ that 

 of head. Dorsal fin lnsert<'d close behind pectoral, its distance from it 

 much less than diameter of eye. Body pale, with faint dark cross shades; 

 dorsal clouded but without black spot; anal dusky. Arctic seas, Alaska 

 to Greenland and Nova Scotia; abundant in the Arctic waters south to 

 Unalaska and Bristol Bay, where specimens were taken in shallow water; 

 our specimens from Bristol Bay. 



Ensign H. G. Diesel records 1 small specimen (No. 28636, U. S. Nat. Mus.), 

 badly preserved, obtained by Mr. Newton Pratt Scudder in Davis Straits, 

 July, 1879. Length 100 mm. D. ca. 97; A. ca. 80. In this specimen the 

 maxillary does not extend to the posterior margin of the eye, which is com- 

 paratively very large. Its diameter is longer than distance from tip of 

 snout to orbit, and is contained 4 times in head. Head 7 in total length; 

 depth 12. Pectoral 2 in head, (wndis, green.) 



Ophidium viride, FABRicins, Tann. Green., 141, 1780, Greenland. 



Ophidium unernak, Lacepi>.de, Hist. IS at. Poiss., ii, 280, 1800, Greenland ; after Pabricius. 



Oymnelis viridis, Richardson, Last Arctic Voyage, 321, pi. 29, 1854. 



Gymnelis viridis, Reinhardt, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Af h., vii, 1838, 131; GiJnther, Cat., 

 IV, 323, 1862 ; Kroyer, Poissons du Nord, Voy . en Scand. et Lap., pi. 15, a-f ; Collett, 

 Norske Nordh. Exped., Fiake, 123, pi. 4, fig. 32, 1880; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 

 789; Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 455. 



? 0-ymni'lis pictus, Gunther, Cat., iv, 324, 1862, no locality. 



2841. OYMNELIS STIGMA (Lay & Bennett). 



Head 6; depth 11. D. 90; A. 70. Form, size, and general appearance 

 of (}. viridis, the dorsal inserted farther back, an eye's diameter behind 

 pectoral. A large, round black ocellus, ringed with white, on dorsal fin 

 above vent ; 2 or 3 other ocelli sometimes present ; head and nape with 

 small white spots; body with faint dark shades and bands. Otherwise 



