46. AGONTJS, 211 



Fourth Group. CATAPHEACTI. 



Tnglidce with the body completely cuirassed by bony keeled scales 

 or plates. Pyloric appendages in small or moderate number. 



46. AGONUS*. 



Agonus, £1 Schn. p. 104. 



Aspidophorus, Lacep. iii. p. 221; Cuv. Sf Veil. iv. p. 198. 



Phalangistea, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. iii. p. 110. 



Head and body angidar, covered with bony plates. Lateral line 

 present. Two dorsals ; no pectoral appendages ; pectoral simple. 

 Teeth in the jaws, and, in one species, also on the vomer. Air- 

 bladder none ; pyloric appendages in small number. 



Northern parts of the temperate zone ; one species reaching south- 

 «\rards to the coasts of Great Britain, others to the coast of Chile. 



1. Agonus cataphractus. 



Cataphractus, Schonev. Ichth. p. 30. pi. 3; Willughby, p. 211; Ray, p. 77. 

 Cottus, sp. 4, Artedi, Genera, p. 49, Spec. p. 87; Gronov. Zoophyl. 



no. 271 ; Klein, Miss. iv. p. 42. 

 Seba, iii. 28. 6. 

 Cottus cataphractus, L. Syst. i. p. 451 ; Z. Gni. p. 1207 ; Bl. taf. 39. 



f. 3, 4 ; Vonov. Brit. Fishes, i. pi. 16 ; Faher, Farm. Graml. p. 156 ; 



Faher, Fische Islands, p. 117 ; Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 103. 

 Agonus cataphractus, Bl. Schn. p. 104 ; White, Catal. Brit. Mus. p. 7. 

 Cataphractus sclioneveldii, Flem. Brit. An. p. 216. 

 Aspidophorus armatus, Lacep. iii. p. 222. 

 europpeus (!), Cuv. <V Val. iv. p. 201 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, ed. 2. 



i. p. 85 ; Parn. Fishes Frith of Forth, p. 28 ; Richards. Faun. Bar. 



Amer. iii. p. 48. 

 cataphractus, Je7i. 3fan. p. 346 ; Fries och Ekstr. p. 167. t. 40. 



D. 5 j 6. A. 6. L. lat. 32. Ctec. pylor. 5. Vert. 11/25. 



Two dorsals. Vomerine teeth none. Angle of mouth and chin 

 with many small barbels ; two pairs of spines above the snout, no 

 other spines on the upper side of the head. The space before the 

 ventrals covered with four square plates. Space between the eyes 

 larger than their diameter. Body with brown cross-bars. 



Coasts of Great Britain; German Ocean; Baltic; Iceland; Greenland. 



a. Adult. English coast. 



h. Adult : stuffed. English coast. 



6-/. Adult and half-grown. Devonshire. Museum Leach. 



g-i. Adult : stuffed. Plymouth. Presented by Lieut. H. F. Spence, 



R.N. 

 Ic. Adult. Frith of Forth. 

 I. Adult. Frith of Forth. Museum Leach. 



* 1. Agonus Isevigatus, Tiles. Mem. Acad. Petersb. iv. p. 436, and Mem. Soc. 

 Natur. Mosc. ii. p. 216. pi. 14 ; Cuv. 8c Val. iv. p. 214 ; Cuv. Begne Anim. 

 III. Poiss. pi. 21. f. 2.— Island of SagaUen. 



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