VI CONTENTS 



Part 2 — Continued. Page 



Modification of characters 43 



Body 43 



Nostrils 43 



Eye 44 



Pores 44 



Teeth 44 



Gill slit 45 



Dorsal fin 45 



Anal fin 47 



Caudal fin 47 



Pectoral fin 47 



Disk 48 



Vent 48 



Pseudobranchiae 48 



Pyloric coeca 49 



Prickles 49 



Coloration 50 



Habits 50 



Food 50 



Summary 50 



Distribution 51 



Limits of distribution 51 



Asiatic and American species 53 



Regions 54 



Distribution of closely related species 54 



Bathymetrical distribution 55 



Center of dispersal 55 



Key to species of Liparis 56 



atlanticus 59 



montagui 61 



rutteri 61 



curilensis 62 



caUyodon 62 



grebnitzkii 64 



mucosus 64 



micraspidophorus 67 



liparis 67 



cyclopus 69 



f renatus 70 



f ucensis 71 



bristolense 72 



megacephalus 73 



tunicatus 73 



herschelinus 75 



agassizii 76 



dennyi 77 



gibbus 79 



cyclostigma 79 



ochotensis 80 



ingens 81 



rhodosoma 81 



steineni 84 



