Jordan and Evcrmann. — Fishes of North America. 



1923 



720. TRIGLOPS, Reiiiliaidt. 



Triglops, Eeixhaedt, Vid. Sel.sk. Natur. Math. Af h., v, 1832, 52 (pingeli). 



Body rather elongate, the tail very slender. Head .small and com- 

 pressed. Mouth moderate; villiform teeth on jaws and vomer, none on 

 the palatines; preopercnlar s'pines 4, small, simple; head prickly, hut with- 

 out scales; a row of enlarged plate-like scales along the lateral line; a 

 similar row above it at the base of the dorsal fin; the space between these 

 densely prickly; lower half of body crossed at short intervals by trans, 

 verse undulating folds of skin, the edge of the fold with minute rough 

 scales, causing it to appear sharply and finely serrate, these cross foldss 

 being really formed by branches of the lateral line. Gill membranes^ 

 united, free from the Lsthmus; a distinct slit behind last gill. Dorsal 

 spines rather high and slender; ventrals I, 3. Arctic seas. {Trigla; ^ip, 

 appearance; the transverse folds resembling the lateral plates oi Tri(jla.\ 



a. Breast crossed by folds of stin similar to those on body. 



h. Eye moderate, 3 to 31 in head; maxillary and lower part of cheek without. 



prickles ; maxillary 2 to 2J in head ; soft dorsal of 23 to 26 rays. 



c. Back olivaceous, varied with darker; fins largely prickly; eye about 3 ii; 



head. Atlantic. pingeli, 2300. 



cc. Back olivaceous, with 4 black, saddle-like blotches; eye 3J to 3| in head, 



fins less prickly. Pacific. beani, 2301, 



66. Eye very large, 2^ in head ; maxillary and lower part of cheek prickly ; maxil 



lary 21 to 24 in head ; soft dorsal of 21 to 23 rays. SCEPTICUS, 2302 



2300. TRIGLOPS PINGELI, Reinhardt. 



Head 3|. D. XII-2.5 ; A. 25 ; P. 19 ; V. 4 ; scales 48 ; eye 3 in head. Snout 

 short and sharp; eyes large, larger than length of snout; interorbital 

 space equal to diameter of pupil; jaws subequal; teeth minute, on jaws 

 and vomer. Body above and head closely covered with minute granula- 

 tions ; encircling the orbit is a series of small warty protuberances ; pre- 

 opercle with 4 small spines but slightly projecting beyond the skin, the 

 uppermost pointing upward and backward, the others downward; no 

 spines on opercle ; nasal spines present ; above the lateral line the whole 

 of the body is rough with granulations, below with oblique and dentate 

 membranaceous folds ; 47 to 49 dentate osseous plates along lateral line ; a 

 series of spines along the base of dorsals, ceasing under the middle of sec- 

 ond dorsal. Space between dorsals about equal to the diameter of pupil, 

 all the rays slender and very brittle; first dorsal a little higher than sec- 

 ond. OliA^aceous, somewhat variegated with darker ; fins barred ; a series 

 of dusky spots along sides ; an ocellated black spot on posterior part of 

 spinous dorsal. (Collett.) Males larger than females and much more 

 common. North Atlantic, from Spitzbergen and western Norway to Green- 

 land and south to Cape Cod and Christiansund, in rather deep water; not 

 rare in 16 to 150 fathoms. Length 5i inches. (Eu.) (A personal name.) 



Triglops pingeli, Eeinhaedt, Vid. Selsk. Natur., v, 1832, 52, Greenland. 



Triglops pleurottictus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1805, 81, Godhavn, Greenland (anal 



rays 27) ; Gunther, Cat., n, 173 ; LiJTKEN, Vid. Medd. Naturh. Foi-en. Kjiibenh. 1876, 90 ; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 713. 



