1974 Bulldin //, United States National Museum. 



2348. MTOXOCEPHALUS SCORPIUS (Linnasus). 



(European Sculpin; I^lke.) 



Head 2^; depth 4:^. D. X, 1(5; A. 14. General cbai'acters of Myojco- 

 cephaltis tfiocnlandicus, from which it (lifters chiefly in the smaller size, the 

 narrower iiiterorbital space, which is f diameter of eye, and in the lower 

 spinous dorsal, the highest spines being about ^ the length to base of cau- 

 dal; -pare behind last gill usually very small, but evident. Dark olivace- 

 ous, mottled with paler ; fins dusky, with paler spots. Northern Europe 

 and Arctic regions, not common on our coasts; recorded by Ur. Liitken 

 from the Baltic, Finland, Spitzbergen, New Zembla, coasts of England, 

 and Northern Asia; recorded from Eastport, Maine. (Eu.) {duopTtioi, 

 scorpiou, the root of our word sculpin.) 



Ulka. LiNN^us, Iter Scand., 325. 



Gottus scorpius, LiNNiKUS, Sy.st. Nat., Ed. x, 265, 1758, after Iter Scand.; Gunthee, Cat. 



Fishes, II, 159 ; Bean, Bull. U. S.Nat. Mus., xv, IIC; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 



702; LiLLJiBORG, Sveriges och Norges Fiskar, 135, 1891. 



2349. MYOXOCEPHALUS GRffiXLANDlCUS (Cuvier & Valenci 



(Daddy Sculpin.) 



Head 2i; depth U. U. X, 17; A. 14; V. I, 3; P. 18. Head large. Eye 

 large, equal to least Interorbital width (in specimens a foot long). Mouth 

 large, the lower jaw included; maxillary reaching posterior edge of orbit 

 2^ in head ; the supraorbital and occipital spines blunt, tubercle-like, with- 

 out cirrus; a small tubercular spine on front of occipital ridge; upper 

 preopercular spine short, only reaching the middle of opercular spine, its 

 length equaling eye, not twice that of the spine below it; opercular spine 



much posteriorly, and its height, before the caudal, is 21 times in the total length. The 

 head is moderately broad and depressed, its length is 3| in the total. The cleft of the 

 mouth is moderate, the maxillary reaching to the vertical from the center of the eye; the 

 snout is not very obtuse, and the ujiper jaw slightly ovciliangs tlir lower; there is a pair 

 of small spines above the snout. Tlic .Miiace lictwcin the cyis is sli:;l]tly cuik ine, and its 

 width rather more thnn the horizontal ili;iiniti r ol the eyis: tli<Tc is aii obtuse jirotuber- 

 ance above the posterior angle of tin- orbit, from which a slight riilge proiccils to the 

 occipital protuberance; the latter is very little prominent, and f urn is heel with snuill skinny 

 tentacle. The impression between these 2 pairs of protuberances is shallow . and ixcoines 

 narrower posteriorly, being nearly twice as long as broad. The prropcrculum is :irn)ed 

 with 3 spines, 2 of which are opjiosite the infraorbital, the third being situated at the 

 inferior extremity of the Ijone, ])ointing downward. The suboperculum has a singlespine 

 anteriorly, directed downward; throat without spines. The spinous dorsal begins at a 

 distance from the head which is rather less than the length of the impression of the 

 crown; it is not continuous with the soft. The fourth spine is the longest, its length 

 being somewhat h'ss tli:ni th:it of the maxilhiry bone, and a little less tluiu that of the 

 ninth ray. Thr cauibil has the posterior margin slightly convex, and its length is 6J in 

 the total. The an;il is fonneil by 12 rays, ami begins in the vertical from the tifth dorsal 

 ray, and terminates a little before the opposite tin; its height equals that of the spinous 

 dorsal. The pectoral is composed of 16 simple rays, and reaches to the vent, which is 

 situated nearly in the muldle of the total length. The root of the ventrals falls behind 

 that of the pectoral; they terminate at a great distance from the vent, and are composed 

 of 1 spine and 3 rays. The spine is enveloped in the same membrane with the first ray ; 

 the middle ray is the longest. Hat and compressed like the interior. The lateral line "is 

 continued to the caudal, and is composed of elongate Ijony tubes, 38 in number. This 

 specimen is nearly entirely smooth, exhibiting. ho\Mver,' some flat and smooth warts 

 above the lateral line ; itisafemale. The ynmio >|„, inn n iliU'ers from the adult one in 

 having 14 anal rays. The colors have some w I i:ii r:i(liil: i he ujiper parts are brown, with 

 some darker spots; the pectoral, dorsal, and < ;iuil;il liiis ;ii.jie;ii- to have been spotted, the 

 spots being arranged in bands; the lower i)art of the sides with several white spots." 



