Jordan and Evcnnann. -Fishes of North America. 



1939 



of spinous dorsal, bearing small serrations on antenor a-^ postenor edges 

 of iLal half, but without larger teeth or accessory «?-"!«- ^f^JXllm 

 lateral plates thickly beset with minute prickles ; posterior part of abdom 

 ifalt Jon and the La above anal tin similarly beset w^^^^ 

 scarcely project beyond the small tubercles in which they occur. A few 



Xh oyerlap the premaxiUary in closed mouth. Interorbital space deeply 



rho^^nelld be orbital rim raised posteriorly into a blunt spinous tubercle^ 



A 'mall, Pinous, occipital tubercle, behind which vises a 1-f '- f -P 



nuciriridae wh ch is highest posteriorly and has its upper edge finely 



t^oth^l No^irrionto^ Upper preopercular spine long, simp e 



rachng beyond head to fourth or fifth plate of lateral uie ; below it 3 



siort strong spines, the lowermost directed downward and forward, 



iTter surface of the upper spine with 3 or 4 low, finely serrated ridges, 



ts hinxedge smooth without accessory cusps or spinules; opercular 



rid. h gh, sirrate; tw; sharp spines on anterior angle of subopercle ; top 



a d sid:s'of head rough, with minute spinous points; 1--P-- ^ ^ f 



lower jaw with numerous short filaments, a longer one on end of niaxi - 



^y Body entirely covered with minute prickles, which invest also the 



aMominalregion;thoseaboyelaterallinelongestandmostthicklyplaced; 



S "ri In o with a series of plates similar to those in E. i>i.on each sur- 

 mouit 1 by a sharp spine; lateral line with 2 curves, approaching back 

 mo nearly at end of spinous and at end of soft dorsal ; many coiispicuous 

 :hte filaments scattered over sides below lateral line ^^^^^^^^^ 

 separate, the free interspace as wide as pupil. Head ^t -:^-gt^;;^2'l2 

 3^ Eye larger than interorbital width, 4f m head. D. VIII-U, A 12 



n if previruisly noted specimen); P. 16; lateral line with 3o plates^ 

 Dusky above, with faint, darker cross bars; light below; two black 

 bh.tches on cheek; some faint dusky V-shaped prolongations of the col- 

 o t on of the back down toward base of anal fin; fins indistinctly cross- 

 banded; a dark area at base of pectoral, a narrow oblique dusky cross bar 

 on base of caudal fin. ^clavis, key; gero, I bear.) 



Cotiu. claviger, CtmEK & Yalknciknnes. Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 195, 1829, Kamchatka 



728. CERATOCOTTUS, Gill. 



Ceratocottu,, CxILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1859, 165 (dieerav^). 



This genus is very close to Enophrys, from which it differs in leaving the 

 long preopercular spine armed above with recurved hooks or antler-like 

 processes. Bering Sea. {nepai, horn; Cottus.) 



