REVISION OF THE FISH FAMILY LIPARIDAE 189 



slightly recurved. Nostril in a slender tube. Eye moderate; pupil 

 oval. Gill slit above the pectoral. One suprabranchial pore; upper 

 snout pore far forward toward the tip of the snout. No prickles. 

 Pyloric coeca absent in cotype, apparently absent in the species. 



Origin of dorsal a short dis- 

 tance behind the base of the 

 pectoral; caudal slender, strong, 

 1.2 in the head; connected for 

 one-fourth its length to the anal. 

 Pectoral broad, reaching the 

 anal, unnotched, anterior rays 

 progressively shortened as in the 

 lower lobe of the fin in Liparis; 

 anterior rays free nearly to the 



base. Vent midway between 



the tip of the lower jaw and the \ 

 anal fin. 



Color dusky to grayish, paler 

 posteriorlv ; lower surface of the ^"^^"^^ ioo.-acaxthouparis opercularis. teeth 



. 1 • 1 FROM COTYPE 



head, snout, mouth, interor bital, 



pectorals, and the abdomen dusky; peritoneum dusky to black; 



stomach dusky to pale. In life dusky reddish throughout. 



Genus NECTOLIPARIS Gilbert and Burke 



NcctoUparis Gilbert and Burke, 1912a, p. 82. 



Disk absent; nostril single; teeth simple; gill slit restricted to the 

 front of the pectoral; one suprabranchial pore; pyloric coeca present; 

 vent horizontal, on the throat, opening forward; branchiostegal rays 

 5; one of the anterior rays lost; pseudobranchiae absent. 



Genotype . — Nedoliparis pelagicus . 



NECTOUPARIS PELAGICUS Gilbert and Burke 



Nedoliparis pelagicus Gilbert and Burke, 1912a, p. 82; 19126, p. 380. 



Type.— 'No. 74389, U.S.N.M.; Albatross Station 4785, oft" Attn 

 Island, Bering Sea, depth 400 fathoms. Length 30 mm. 



Distribution. — North Pacific, southern California to Hokkaido, 

 Japan; Albatross Stations 4252, 4257, 4258, 4333, 4539, 4541, 4765, 

 4767, 4781, 4785, 4800, 5032, and 5039; depth intermediate, 300 to 

 609 fathoms. Fifteen specimens examined. 



RelationsJiips . — Resembling Paraliparis in the reduction of the 

 pectoral rays, and coeca and the character of the teeth. Widely 

 divergent in the loss of one of the branchiostegals. 



Description of the type. — Dorsal 53; anal 48; pectoral 19; caudal 6; 

 pyloric coeca 8; depth 4.8; head 4.2. Eye 2.7 (from a cotype). 



