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Corynolophus Reinhardti. 



1878 — Corynoloplins Reinhardti, LUtken, K. Dausk. Videcsk. Selsk. Skr., Nat. og Math. 

 Afh., 5. rsekke, b. 5, p. 321, etc. 



Corynolophus with the height of the body equal to three-fourths of the 

 total leugth, and the frontal ray furnished with 8 tentacles. 



Mahitat. — Sea off Greenland (described from a specimen 14 inches 

 long). 



LOPHIID^. 



Pediculates with pseudobranchice, i. e.. 



Pediculates with the body differentiated into a wide depressed head and 

 contracted conical trunk; the month opening forwards and upwards; the 

 branchial apertures in the inferior axils of the pectoral members ; pseudo- 

 branchiae; the spinous dorsal represented by a group of independent 

 cephalic spines (3) and a small postcephalic finlet (with 3 spines); the 

 pectoral members scarcely geniculated, but with elongated pseudobra- 

 chia, and with three actinosts; and with ventrals well developed. 



LOPHIUS.* 



Lophiids with vomerine teeth. 



Lophius piscatoriiis. 



Bdloivs-fish. 



1758 — Lophius piscatorius, Linnccus, Syst. Nat., 10 ed., t. 1, p. 236 (12 ed., t. 1,. p. 402; 



Guil. ed., t. 1, p. 1479). 

 1815 — Lophius foliatus, Mitcliill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., v. 1, p. 457. 

 1815 — Lophius piscator, Mitcliill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., v. 1, p. 467. 

 1837 — Lophius i^iscatorius, Cuv. ^- Vol., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, t. 12, p. 344, pi. 362. 

 1837 — Lophius americanus, Cuv. <J- Val., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, t. 12, p. 381. 

 1839 — LophiuS piecatorius, Siorer, Boston Jouru. Nat. Hist., v. 2, p. 3d0 ; Rep. Ich. aud 



Herp. Mass., pp. 71, 404. 

 1842— Lophius americanus, DcKay, Zoology of New York, Fishes, p. 162, pi. 28, f. 87. 

 1853 — Lophius americanus, Sioi^er, Mem. Am. Acad. Arts aud Sc, n. s., v. 5, p. 267 ; Hist. 



Fishes Mass., p. 101, pi. 18, f. 2. 

 1861 — Lophius piscatorius, Giinther, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., v. 3, p. 179. 

 1861 — Lophius americanus, Giinther, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., v. 3, p. 181 (d. s.). 

 1872 — Lophius piscatorius, Lyman, 6ih Ann. Rep., lul. Fish., ji. 44 (Waquoit Weir). 



Loiihius with a tridentate humeral ppiue, 11-12 rays in the dorsal fin, 

 and the mouth behind the hyoid boue immaculate. 

 Habitat. — Coast waters from Newfoundland to North Carolina. 



MALTHEliD^. 



Pediculates with the branchial apertures in the superior axils of the 

 pectorals, i. e., 



Pediculates with a depressed body; the mouth subterminal or inferior, 

 and the lower jaw generally received within the upper; the branchial 

 apertures in the superior axils of the pectoral fins ; no psendobranchia} ; 



*Lo2)kius, the ancient Latin name of the type of the genu-. 



