Jordan and Evermann, — Fishes of North America. 2579 



Close to Maerourtis, differing in the larger terminal month. {Hopv6aiva, 

 Coryphcena; siSo?, resemblance.) 



a. Head 4 in length ; gill rakers 4+15=19. rupesteis, 2954. 



aa. Head 6 in length ; gill rakers 3+11=14. carapinus, 2955. 



2954. CORTPH.EXOIDES RUPESTKIS, Gunner. 



D. 10; P. 19; V. 7; gill rakers 4-f 15=19. Head short, rather com- 

 pressed; snont short, obliquely trnncated in front; cleft of mouth wide, 

 lateral, extending to beyond the center of ej^e ; intermaxillary not mnch 

 shorter than maxillary. Teeth in villiform bands in each jaw; barbel 

 very small. Interorbital space convex, its width being considerably more 

 than diameter of eye, which, in a specimen 3 feet long, is equal to the 

 length of the snout and i of that of the head. Scales equally rough over 

 the whole of their surface, all the spinelets being directed backward; 7 or 

 8 scales in a transverse series between the dorsal tin and the lateral line; 

 head entirely covered with small scales. Anterior dorsal spine armed with 

 numerous small closely set barbs; outer ventral ray produced into a long 

 filament. Distance between the vent and isthmus f the length of the head. 

 The gill membrane entirely free from the isthmus behind. Intermaxillary 

 continues beyond its vertical process and extending almost as far back 

 as the maxillary, these 2 bones being about equal in length; last third 

 of intermaxillary toothless; intermaxillary teeth in a very narrow band, 

 which is uniform in width, the outer teeth only slightly enlarged; man- 

 dible with villiform teeth in a broad bunch-like band at the symphysis 

 and hecoming imiserial behind. Eye nearly circular. Snout projecting 

 slightly. Gill rakers longer and less tubercular in character than in 

 Macrourns herglax and M. acrolepis. The suborbital ridge feebly developed 

 and very abruptly curved upward and narrowed in front of the eye where 

 it joins the nasal ridge. In M. herglax and M. acrolepis the suborbital ridge 

 is very strong and is continued almost in a straight line toward the nasal 

 ridge. (Goode & Bean.) Arctic seas and the north Atlantic, on both 

 coasts south to the banks of Newfoundland and Norway, in deep water. 

 (Eu.) (rupestris, living about rocks.) 



Ooryphcenoides rupestris, Gunner, Trondhjem Selsk. Skrift., iii, 50, pi. 3, fig. 1, 1765, 

 Norway; Collett, Norges Fiske, 131; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 812, 1883; 

 GooDE & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 402, 1896. 



Lepidoleprus norvegicus, NiLSSON, Prodr. Ichth. Scand., 51, 18.32, Norway. 



Oortjphcenoideg norvegicus, Gijnther, Cat., iv, 396, 1862. 



Macrourus stromii, Reinhardt, Dansk. Vidensk. Afhandl., vii, 129, 1828: GaimaRi), 

 Voy. Skand., Poiss., pi. 11. 



Macrurvs rupestris, Gunther, Challenger Report, xxn, 188, 1887. 



2955. CORYPH.ENOIDES CARAPINUS, Goode & Bean. 



Heads. D. II, 8-100; A. 117; V. 10; eye 4 in head. Snout acute, pro- 

 jecting beyond the mouth, its tip at a distance fi-om the mouth equal to or 

 greater than diameter of ej'e. Bones of head very soft and liexil)h', its 

 surface very irregular, there being a very prominent subocular ridge, a 

 prominent ridge extending from tip of snout to middle of interorbital 

 space, and a curved ridge extending from upper anterior margin of orbit 



