lit. BLENNIID^ ANARRHICHAS. 781 



head, tlieir tips roacliing beyond front of dorsal; vent a little in front 



of middle of body. Head 6i; dei)tli 13. D. LXXIII; A. 50. North 



Atlantic, south to Cape Cod; not very common. 



(Storer, Eept. F'ish. Mass. 1839, 28; Giiuther, iii, 291: Cryptacanthodes inoruatus Gill, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phlla. 1863, 332, albino form.) 



423^-A]\ARRIIICIlAS Liimueus. 



WoJf-JisJies. 



(Artedi; Linu;eus, Syst. Nat.: type Auarrhichas hqms L.) 



Body moderately elongate, covered with nulimentary scales; head 

 scaleless, "without cirri, compressed, narrowed above, the i)rotile strongly 

 decurved; mouth wide, oblique ; preraaxillary not ])rotractile; jaws with 

 very strong conical canines auteriorly ; lateral teeth of lower jaw either 

 molar or with ])ointed tubercles; ujiper jaw without lateral teeth; 

 vomer extremely thick afid solid, with 2 series of coarse molar teeth; 

 palatines with 1 or 2 similar series. Gill-membranes broadly joined to 

 the isthmus; no lateral line. Dorsal tin rather high, composed entirely 

 of flexible si)ines, which are enveloped in the skin; anal fin lower; 

 caudal fin developed, free from dorsal and anal; no ventral fins; pec- 

 toral fins broad, placed low; air-bladder present; no i^jdoric coeca. 

 Northern seas, (xinarrhichas (or ^Scansor), an ancient name of A. hipm ; 

 from fvj(j.p{>'.yaoiw.{^ to climb or scramble up; the allusion not evident.) 



1195. A. lupus Linn. — Wolf-fsh. 



Brownish; sides with numerous (i)-12) very dark, transverse bars, 

 which are (jontinued on the dorsal fin, besides lunnerous dark spots 

 and reticulations; fins dark; caudal tipped with reddish. Maxillary 

 reaching beyond orl>it; band of vomerine teeth extending much tar- 

 tlier back than the short palatine band. Pectorals large, rounded, 

 two-thirds length of head. Dorsal high, beginning over the gill-open- 

 ing, its longest rays about half length of head. Head G; depth 5^. 

 D. LXII; A. 42. North Atlantic; rather common both in America 

 and Europe. 



(Liniiuuis, Syst. Nat. i, 430, ITW!: Giiuther, iii, 208; IJean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ii, 

 1879, 217 : AnarrhUhan vomerinus Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass. 1867, 99, the Americau form.) 



1196. A. minor Olafscn. 



Sides without vertical bars, but witii many large, round, black spots. 



Vomerine teeth extending nearly or quite as far back as the palatines. 



{Bean.) North Atlantic. 



(Olafsen, Reise 1 Island, 1772, 592: Anarrhichas panthcrinua Zouiew, Nov. Act. Po- 

 trop. 1781, 271; Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ii, 217, 1879.) 



