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Corynolophus Reinhardti. 



1878 — CoryDolophus Reiubardti, Lutken, K. Dausk. Vidensk. 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. 



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

 long). 



LOPHIID^. 



Pediculates with pseudobranchiae, i. e., 



Pediculates with the body differentiated into a wide depressed liead and 

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

 branchial apertures in the inferior axils of the pectoral m6mbers ; pseudo- 

 branchiae; the spinous dorsal represented by a group of independent 

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

 pectoral members scarcely geniculated, but with elongated i)seudobrH 

 chia, and with three actinosts; and with ventrals well develoi)ed. 



LOPHIUS.* 



Lophiids with vomerine teeth. 



Lopbius piscatorius. 



Belloics-fish. 



1758 — Lopbius piscatorius, Lmvaius, S,vst. Nat., 10 td., t. 1, p. 2'.]6 (12 fd., t. I. p 402 , 



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

 1815 — Lopbius foliatus, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Pbil. Soc. N. Y., v. 1, p. 467. 

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

 18.37 — Lophius piscatorius, Cai\ ^- Vol., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, t. l'^, p. 344, pi. 'M'2. 

 18.37 — Lopbius amencanus, Cuv. <$• Vol , Hist. Nat. des Poissons, t. 12, p. 381. 

 1839— Lophius pit-catorius, Utorer, Boston Journ. N.'t. Hist., v. 2, p. 3-0 ; Rep. Ich. :ii,d 



Herp. Mass , pp. 71, 404. 

 1842— Lopbius ainericanus, DeKay, Zoology of New York, Fishes, p. 162, pi. 28, f. 87. 

 1853 — Lopbius amencanus, Stortr, Mem. Am. Acad. Arts and Sc, n. s., v. 5, p. 267 ; Hist. 



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

 1861 — Lopbius piscatorius, Gilnther, C.it. Fishes in Brit. Mus., v. 3, p. 179. 

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

 1872 — Lopbius piscatorius, Lyman, 6th Auu. Eep., Inl. Fish., p. 44 (Waquoit Weir). 



Lophius with a tridentate humeral f^pine, 11-12 rays in the dorsal fin, 

 and the mouth behind the hyoid bone immaculate. 



Habitat. — Coast waters from Newfoundland to North Carolina. 



MALTHKIID^. 



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 ihe pectoral fins; no pseudobranchiae; 



^Lophius, the ancient Latin name of the type of the genu . 



