Jordan and Evcrmann.— Fishes of North America. 1969 



2343. URANIDEA FORMOSA (Girard). 



Head ^\. D.VIII-16; A. 11; V.I, 3. Body slender and graceful; head 

 small, depi-essod above; eye moderate; preoperciilar spine short, stout, 

 acute, curved upward, a small spine below it; subopercular spine well 

 developed. Dorsals well separated; anal beginning under third ray of 

 soft dorsal; pectorals not reaching to posterior margin of spinous dorsal ; 

 ventrals not nearly to vent. Length 3^ inches. Deep water in Lake 

 Ontario. (Girard.) A doubtful species, known only from 1 mutilated 

 specimen, the head shorter than in Uranidea </racilis. {formosus, pretty.) 



Cottus formosus, Girard, Monograph Cottoids, 58, 1850, Lake Ontario off Oswego, in 



stomach of Lota maculosa. (Coll. S. F. B.aird.) 

 Uranidea formosa, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 955. 



2344. URAXIDEA HOYI, Putnam. 



D.VI, 15; A. 11; V.I, 3; C.12; the first dorsal low and small, f as long 

 as soft part, and connected to it by membrane. Fins all low. (Hoy.) 

 Body small, rather short and thick, the depth about 5^ in length. Head 

 3^ in length to base of caudal. Eyes large, high up, and close together, 

 about equal to snout, 3^ in head, 3 times the iuterorbital space. Head 

 rather narrow and contracted; the lower jaw narrowed and slightly pro- 

 jecting. No palatine teeth; maxillary reaching anterior border of eye, 

 or a little beyond. Preopercular spine prominent, sharp, very nearly 

 straight, directed backward, but not strongly upward, its form and direc- 

 tion peculiar in this genus. Below this is another sharp, prominent spine, 

 also nearly straight, directed partly downward; one or 2 minute con- 

 cealed spines still lower. Isthmus well developed. Pectoral fins long, 

 longer than head, reaching beginning of anal; ventral fins long, reach- 

 ing almost to vent. Vent midway between snout and base of caudal, in 

 the female farther back, owing to the distended abdomen. Ventral rays 

 I, 3 (on one side of each specimen apparently I, 4; perhaps a soft ray has 

 been split). Color nearly obliterated. Lower parts profusely punctate. 

 Length of specimens 2^ inches. Lake Michigan in deep water. Female 

 specimen taken 12 miles oft' Racine, Wisconsin, in 12 fathoms, .Jnne 4, 187.5, 

 by Dr. Hoy; the male oft" Milwaukee, .Jui.e 15. The specimens are now in 

 bad condition from rough handling. The female is distended with ripe 

 eggs, 80 that the width of the body is * the total length. This species 

 seems to be quite distinct from all those described by Girard. The pecul- 

 iar characters are the number and form of the preopercular spines, the 

 contracted mouth, the large eyes, the small size of the body, and the 

 length of the ventral fins. The characters first mentioned are the most 

 striking. (Named for Dr. Philo R. Hoy, of Racine.) 



Uranidea hoyi (Putnam MS.) Nelson, Bull. Ills. Mus. Nat. Hist., "Vol. I, No. 1, 1876. 41, 

 Lake Michigan (Coll. Philo R. Hoy) ; Jordan, Man. Vert., 244, 1876; Jordan & Cope- 

 land, Bull. Bull'. Soc. Nat. Sci. 1876, 41 ; Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1877, 63 ; Jor- 

 dan &. Gilbert, Synopsis, 700, 1883. 



