Jordayi a^id Evcnnanyi. — Fishes of North America. 2007 



Aspidojjhonin armah(S, LACfipfeDE, Hist. Nat. de.s Poi.S8., Ill, 222, 1802, Atlantic Ocean. 

 Catuphracltis schoneveldii, Fleming, British Animals, 216, 1828, Great Britain. 

 Aspidoj^honis europcens, C0VIEE & Y.\lenciennes, Hist. Nat. des. Poiss., iv, 201, 1829, 



sandy shores of Northern Europe; Ekhardson, Fauna Boreali- Amer., in, 48, 1836. 

 Agonus cataphractug, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichtli., i, 304, 1801 ; Gunther, Cat., ii, 211, 



1800; Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., xiii, 1861,167; LCtken, Forelob. Meddel. Nord. 



rikefiske, Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjiil)., 381 (27), 1876; Collett, Norges 



Fiske, 38, 1875; Malm, Giiteborgs och Boliuslans Fauna, 406, 1877; Day, Fishes of 



Great Britain, 67, pi. 28, fig. 1, 1881 ; Lilljebobg, Fauna, Sverigea och Norges Fiskar, 



1883-84. 

 Aspidophonis catap)hraettis, Kroyer, Danmarks Fiske, I, 143, 1838; Steensthup & LiJT- 



KEN, Vidensk. Meddel. fra den. Naturhist. Foren. Kjiib. 1861, p. 277, 1862. 



769. STELGIS, Cramer. 



Stelgis, Cramer, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 821 (vulsus). 



Body tapering, depressed throughout, its height about 8, its breadth 

 about 7 in its length ; head 4, depressed. Plates of body spinous, about 

 37 in dorsal series ; only about 8 median plates on peduncle ; 7 pairs between 

 occiput and first dorsal. Mouth inferior, snout projecting beyond pre- 

 maxillaries; teeth on jaws, none on vomer or palatines. Ouo pair of hori- 

 zontal and 1 pair of recui-ved spines at tip of vsnout. Scattered barbels or 

 cirri on maxillary, mandible, and branchiostegal membranes; a few on 

 under side of snoiit, or none. One pair preocular, 1 pair supraocular, and 

 2 (4) pairs occipital spines. A transverse pit at occiput. Branchiostegal 

 membranes joined to isthmus. {6vEXyi<^, or drXeyyi';, a scraper.) 



2416. STELGIS VULSUS* (Jordan & Gilbert). 



B. 6; D. IX, 7; A. 9; P. 14; V. 3 (1, 2). Body elongated, tapering rapidly 

 backward, depressed throughout, height -j of breadth, the latter about 7 in 

 length of body. All plates of body armed with spines except those in anterior 

 and posterior parts of th(^ ventrolateral series; spines strong and recuived. 

 Only about 8plates in median dorsal scries of tail, but the sj>ines of the ridge 

 continue, double. At base of tail on each side is a spine, between the lateral 

 ridges ; vent just behind middle of length of ventrals. Lateral line about 

 40. Ventral surface flat throughout. Head acutely triangular (seen from 

 above), depressed, depth about f of width, the latter about 5^ in length of 

 body; length of head about 4; profile irregularly sigmoid, depressed at front 

 of eye8,thence nearly straight to tip of rostral spines. Mouth V-shaped, infe- 

 rior ; maxillary reaching frout of pupil ; snout projecting anteriorly beyond 

 premaxillaries. Teeth in bands on jaws, none evident on vomer or pala- 

 tines. Maxillary, mandible, and branchiostegal region with small, scat- 

 tered cirri ; under side of snout with few barbels or none. Eye large, nearly 



* Diagnosis: Body tapering, depressed throughout, height about f of breadth, the latter 

 Tin length of body. Body spinous; only about 8 mediun plates on jieduncle. Head 4; 

 plates in dorsal series about 37 (number between last ray of second dorsal and first 

 median plate not recorded ; all others 34) ; between occiput and first dorsal 7 ; between 

 membranes of dorsal 4. Gill membranes ioinod to istlimua. No teeth on vomer or pala- 

 tines. Scattered barbels on maxillaiy. inamlilile, :ind l)raii(hios1i'Kal iiiiniliraiiis; a few 

 on under side of snout, or uone. One )>:iii- i>r li(iriz<iutal and I pair >>{' rcniivfil sjiincs on 

 snout. One i)air preocular, 1 pair supraocular, and 2 (or 4 .') pairs of occipital spines. 

 Dark brown, with 7 to 9 cross bars; fins mostly dark. 



