Family Herrutripteridae 

 48. Ulca bolim Myers 



Hemitripterus marmoratus Bean (non Ayres)^/ Proc USNM 13, 1890, p. 43 



(Sitkalidak Id., 69 f ath) . 

 Ulca marmorata Jordan & Evermann, 1. c. p. 2021; Taranetz, Tran Far East 



Br Acad Scl SSSR, 1933, no. 1-2-3, p. 71. 

 Ulca bolim Myers Copeia, 1934, no. 1, p. 44. 



This species was described from Kodiak Id. (Sitkalidak Is.) and later found in 

 east Bering Sea. In 1932 first found by the GGI and TIRH expeditions on the asiatic 

 coast of the North Bering Sea near Cape Navarin (A. Y. Taranetz, 1933). Further 

 to the south on the asiatic side it is not known. The only example preserved by the 

 TIRH expedition trawler KRASNOARMEIETZ (no. 24936 ZIN Akad Nauk SSSR), 

 measures: 



DXIV, 12 A 13 P21 LI 42. 



Total length 490 mm; in percentage of total length: Head 29.4. In percentage 

 of head, eye 13.9; interorbital 41.0, length 1st dorsal base 86.1, length 2nd 

 dorsal base 65.3, pectoral length 80.6, ventral length 31.2. 



Interorbital wide, almost flat but not concave . Bristles and chin tubercles 

 are less developed. 



Interdorsal space small. Color poorly preserved. Reaches to a good size 

 (DALNEVOSTOTCHNIK (1932) example from Cape Navarin is 71 cm). 



49 . Hemitripterus americanus villosus (Pallas) 



Cottus villosus Pallas, Zoo. Rosso-Asiat 3, 1811, p. 129 (E. Kamchatka) 

 Hemitripterus acadianus Steindachner (non Pennant) Sitzb. Acad. Wien, Bd. 72, 



1875 p. 63 (Hokodate, Japan) 

 Hemiptripterus cavifrons Lockmgton, Proc. Acad Nat Sci Phil. 1880, p. 233 



(Kodiak Id) 

 Hemiptripterus americanus Schmidt (non Gmelin) fish East Sea, 1904, p. 121, 



Popov, Copeia, 1933, no. 2, p. 62. 



Widely distributed in the north Pacific Ocean, common on East coast of 

 Kamchatka and Alaska ( Hemitripterus cavifrons Lockington) . The exact northern 

 limit not clear. Material in the Zoological Institute of the Acad. Sci SSSR indicates 

 the northern limit is Cape Karaginsky. The systematic position of the Pacific Ocean 

 form is not established. Jordan and Evermann considered H. cavifrons Lockington 



Ayres (Proc Cal Acad Nat Sci. 1, 1854, p. 4, San Francisco) described another 

 fish under this name ( Hemitripterus marmoratus) which is now termed Scorpaenichthys 

 marmoratus (Ayres) which is placed in a separate family by American ichthyologists 

 (Jordan, Evermann & Clark, 1930, p. 382). See Myers, 1934, I.e. 



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