This subspecies, from the Okhotsk and western Bering Sea differs from the 

 eastern Bering Sea S . frenatus frenatus (Gilbert) in the larger number of inter - 

 dorsal plates (4-5 instead of 2-3, rarely 4), and a greater interdorsal distance, 

 1 1/3 in eye instead of 3/4 to 7/8 according to Gilbert; in the upper part of the 

 pectoral is a large spot (which is absent in typical form) . An example identified 

 by P. Y. Schmidt (1904) V. K. Soldatov and G. U. Lindberg (1930) from the 

 Japanese Sea belongs to the Japanese subspecies (S. leptorhynchus knipowitschi 

 Lindberg & Andriashev). Our examples from Anadyr Gulf and Natalie Bay. 



56 . Sarritor leptorhynchus leptorhynchus (Gilbert) 



Odontopyxis leptorhynchus Gilbert Repl; US Fish Comm (1893) 1895, p. 437 



Alaska Peninsula, 32-59 fath). 

 Podothecus gilberti Schmidt (non Collett) Fish East Seas, 1904, p. 139 (in 



{bart, no. 13027 from Anadyr Gulf). 

 Sarritor leptorhynchus leptorhynchus Lindberg & Andriashev, 1935, I.e. 



In our collections are 10 adults from near Natalie Bay, which in almost all 

 details correspond to Gilbert's description. They differ only in the slightly 

 larger pectoral fin. S. leptorhynchus P. Y. Schmidt (1904) is considered a 

 distinct subspecies knipowitschi Lindberg & Andriashev. 



57. Bathyagonus nigripinnis Gilbert 



On our coasts this form was first found by Gilbert & Burke (1912) in 

 Avachin Bay at a depth of 628 (SIC) --682 fathoms. Our examples from Bering 

 Id. DALNEVOSTOTCHNIK, 1932, st. 5 and 70 (59) off Cape Yushin at depths 

 of 200-225 meters. Bottom sandy, temperature at st. 70 (59), 2.0° . 



A deep water form found to 1000 meters. At the Commander Islands, 

 representatives of abyssal bathyial faunas rises to the lower region of the 

 sublittoral and this form is found along with Albatrossia pectoralis (Gilbert), 

 Sebastolobus alascanus Bean, Lycenchelus camchaticus (Gilbert & Burke), 

 Lycogramma brunnea (Bean), etc. 



! ii , 



A total of 13 examples from 90-239 mm. which do not differ from Gilbert's 

 description. 



DVI-VII, 6-7 A 7-8 P 15-16 V 1, 2 Branchiostegals 6 LI 43-44 (45). 



Dorsal plates (39) 42-44 (45). Plates of upper lateral row 43-44 (45). 

 Plates between 1st and 2nd dorsal (2) 3-4^/ (in 12 examples). 



1/ 



Measurements on the proportions and ratios of Bathyagonus nigripinnis, as 

 well as for many other species were made by K. Y. Andriashev, to whom I 

 am grateful. 



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