Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 2715 



men, 2i inches long, dredged at Albatross Station 2805, southwest of Pan- 

 ama. From this specimen, the above description is taken. Comparing 

 this witli a larger specimen taken at Tokio by Prof. K. Otaki, we tind no 

 differences likely to i)rove permanent, (seta, bristle; gero,'l bear.) 



Lopfiius setigerus, Vahl,* Skrivt. Naturh., iv, 214, tab. 3, figs. 5 and 6, 1797, China Sea; 



CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xn, 383, 1837 ; GOnther, Cat., ni, 180, 1861. 

 Lophim viviparug, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichtb., 142, 1801, tab. 32, China Sea; after 



Vabl. 

 Lopfiiomus setigerus, Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 454. 



Family CCXXII. ANTENNARIID^. 



(The Frog-Fishes.) 



Head and l)ody more or less compressed. Mouth vertical or very 

 obli([ue, opening upward; lower jaw projecting; jaws with cardiform 

 teeth; premaxillaries protractile. Gill openings small, pore-like, in or 

 behind the lower axils of the pectorals. No pseudolnauchiic. Gills 2^ 

 or 3; skin naked, smooth, or prickly. Pectoral membera forming an 

 elbow-like angle. Pseudobrachia long, with 3 actinosts. Ventral fins 

 present, jugular, near together. Spinous dorsal of 1 to 3 separated, 

 tentacle-like spines; soft dorsal long, larger than anal. Pyloric caeca 

 none. Genera about 5; species 50. Inhabitants of tropical seas, "living 

 on floating seaweed, and enabled, by filling the capacious stomach with 

 air, to sustain themselves on the surface of the water;" therefore widely 

 dispersed by currents in the sea. {Pediculati, pt., Giinther, Cat., iii, 182 

 to 200, 1861.) 



a. Head compressed ; a rostral apiue or tentacle, followed by 2 larger spines ; palatine 



teetb developed; dorsal spines disconnected. 



b. Skin naked and smooth ; ventral tins elongate. Pterophryne, 1060. 



bh. Skin covered with prickles; ventral tins short. Antennarids, 1061. 



aa. Head cuboid; a single rostral spine or tentacle, received in a groove; soft dorsal 



low. Chaunax, 1062. 



io6o. PTEROPHRYNE, Gill. 



(Mouse-Fish.) 



Pteroi)hryne, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1863, 90 (hounainviUei) . 



rtero2Jhrynoides, Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat: Mus., l, 1878, 210 (liistrio) ; name a substitute for 

 Fteroptiryne, if the latter be regarded as preoccupied by the earlier Pterophrynus. 



Body smooth or scarcely granular, short, somewhat compressed, with 

 tumid abdomen; mouth small, oblique; palate with teeth; wrist and pec- 

 toral fin slender; ventrals elongated; soft dorsal and anal vertically 



*Lophiom,us setigerus, is thus described by Dr. Giintlier : 



"Dorsal III-IIl, 8 or 9; A. 6 or 7. Teeth arranged in 2 alternate series in the upper 

 jaw, in 3 in the lower; 2 or 3 teeth on each side of the vomer; humeral spine terminating 

 in 3 points; the mouth behind the hynid bone purplish black, with white spots. Vertebra- 

 li), tlie anterior ones very short, tlie middle and posterior ones nearly equal in length. 

 Coasts of China and Japan." (Giinther.) 



