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CYCLOPTERID.E. 



SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOFTERYGU. 



CYCLOPTERIDJE. 



THE LUMP SUCKER. 



SEA-OWL, and cock paddle. 



Cyclopterus lumpus, Linn;eus. Block, pt. iii. pi. 90. 



,, ,, CuviER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 346. 



Lumpus Anglorum, Willugiiby, p. 208, N. 11. 



Cyclopterus lumpus. Lump Sucker, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 176, pi. 24. 



Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 10. 



,, ,, Lump-fish, Flem. Brit. An. p. 190, sp. 75. 



Generic Characters. — Head and body deep, thick, and short ; back with an 

 elevated ridge, the investing skin enclosing simple rays ; pectoral fins uniting 

 under the throat, and with the ventrals forming a single disk. 



The Lump Sucker is remarkable for its very grotesque 

 form, while from tlie large size of its body, both as to depth 

 and thickness in reference to its length, and the compara- 

 tively small size of its fins, it appears calculated to make but 

 slow progress through the water. 



