The batJiypelagic existence is corroborated by the feeding of this species on 

 deep water pelagic forms: Hymenodora frontalis^'' (fide M. Rathbun— ^ usually in- 

 habits 322 to 1771 feet in depths), Calanus cri status (usually to 500 m, though 

 recent data by M. A. Virketis indicate it rises higher), Eucalanus attenuatus, 

 Conchaecia sp . , Euchaeta sp., etc.—/ 



Lampanyctus beringensis differs from the majority of the species of this 

 series by a short reduced pectoral fin, which places it m a subgenus 

 Nannobrachium Gilbert to which Jordan and Evermann (1896, p, 261) assigned 

 L. mexicanum (Gilbert), L. macdonaldi (Goode and Bean), L. nannochir (Gilbert) 

 (? L. leucopsarum (Eig. & Eig.)) and L. regalls (Gilbert). Of these, L. 

 beringensis Schmidt is closest to L. nannochir and differs from it only in the 

 presence of four PRC and a few pushed back VLO. The SAO and POL are placed 

 closer to the lateral line and the adipose fin is posterior to a vertical ex- 

 tending from the end of the anal fin, (it begins over the last rays of the anal 

 fin in L . nannochir ) and is almost between the procurrent rays and the end of 

 the dorsal fin (much closer to the Dorsal m L. nannochir ) . 



This species obviously appears more common in depths at 500 m or deeper 

 in the Bering Sea. 



Family Scorpaenidaei/ 



13. Sebastolobus alascanus Bean 



Two examples from Bering Id. at depths from 200-235 m. (DALNEVOSTOTCHNIK, 

 1932, St. 70, (59)). Female 400 mm and juvenile 177 mm. 



DXVI, 9-10-1/2, A III 5, P 21-22. LI 33. Gill rakers 6-7 + 13-14 outer row 



2 + 11-12 inner row 



14 . Sebastodes polyspinis Taranetz and Moiseev 



Sebastodes polyspinis Taranetz and Moiseev, in Taranetz, Ivest. Far Eastern 

 Branch, Akad. Nauk, 1933, no. 1-3, p. 69. 



1/ 



Described by V. V. Makarova. 



2/ 



Harriman Alaskan Expedition, vol. 10, p. 29, 1904. 



Described by S. S. Smirnova 



4/ 



Synonymy and description of types of family Scorpaenidae, see P. A. 



Moiseev (Exp. Sea, SSSR, vol. 23) 



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