Jordan and Evernia7in. — Fishes of North America. 2553 



Subgenus UROPHYCIS. 



2924. UROPHYCIS REGIUS (Walbaum). 



Head 4i iu bodj^; depth 5. D. 8-43; A. 40; scales about 90; eye 4^ in 

 head; maxillary 2; pectoral 1?; caudal li?. Body rather elongate, com- 

 pressed; mouth large, the maxillary reaching slightly past posterior 

 margin of eye; lower jaw included; cardiform teeth on jaws and vomer; 

 interorbital flattish, about equal in width to the diameter of eye; gill 

 rakers short, 3 -f- 12 in number; origin of dorsal over base of pectorals; 

 pectorals slender, barely reaching to front of anal; ventrals filamentous, 

 composed of 2 rays each with the inner ray the larger, inserted in front of 

 base of pectoral in distance equal to U diameter of eye, their ends reach- 

 ing beyond front of anal; front of anal nearer snout than base of caudal, 

 by nearly a head's length ; caudal subtruncate. Pale brownisht inged with 

 yellowish, the lateral line dark brown, interrupted by white spots; inside 

 of mouth white ; first dorsal largely black, this color surrounded by white ; 

 second doi-sal olivaceous, with irregular round dark spots; caudal, anal, 

 and pectorals dusky; ventrals and lower edge of pectorals white; 2 

 vertical series of round dark sjiots on the sides of the head. North 

 Atlantic, south to Cape Fear; ranging from shallow water to a dei)th of 

 167 fathoms. Here described from a specimen, 8 inches in length, from 

 Charleston, >South Carolina. The species is said to exhibit electric iiowers 

 in life, (rc^iffs, royal.) 



Blennius, sp., Schopf, Schrilt. Naturf. Freuude, Berlin, viii, 1780, 142, New York. 

 Blennius re^iw*, "Walbaum, Artedi, Pise, ni, 186, 1792; after Schupf. 

 Enchelyopus regalis, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Iclith., 53, 1801, after Schupf. 

 Gadus punetatus, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 372, New York. 

 TTrophycis regius, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 240. 

 Phycis regius, Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 357, 1896. 

 Phycis regalis, GOntheb, Cat., iv, 355, 1862. 

 Phycis punetatus, De Kay, N. T. Fauna: Fishes, 292, 1842. 



2925. UROPHTCIS UIRRATUS, Goode & Bean. 



Head 4; depth 5. D. 10-66; A. 57; scales 6-93-20. Body moderately 

 btout; eye large, about 4 in head; interorbital space 2 in eye. Maxillary 

 not reaching posterior margin of orbit iu large specimens, but in smaller 

 ones it extends fully to that vertical; mandible extending far beyond 

 posterior margin of eye, its length about ecj^ual to postorbital part of head; 

 barbel minute in all examples examined, its length usually about ^ that 

 of eye. Teeth in villiform bands iu lioth jaws, the intermaxillary bands 

 being wider than those of mandible; vomerines in a narrow villiform 

 band. Gill rakers 2 + 12, the largest club-shaped at end, the longest 4 in 

 eye. Gill membranes attached to isthmus, but with a narrow, free pos- 

 terior border. Length of pectorals about I distance from ventral to anal 

 origin, reaching to about the twenty-sixth row of scales ; ventral reaching 

 in some specimens slightly beyond origin of anal; in 1 individual almost 

 to middle of anal fin ; none of the dorsal rays filamentous, the longest from 

 2| to 3 times in head; base of first dorsal about equal to length of eye in 

 most specimens; in smaller examples somewhat greater, about 3 iu head; 

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