82 Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricus) 



Amphiboreal, common in the Atlantic only on American coast (Greenland, Hudson 

 Bay and South of Newfoundland), in Chukchi Sea ( Nothogrammus (SIC) rothrocki 

 Bean) and Bering Sea south to Bristol Bay and Kodiak Id . In the OkJiotsk Sea re- 

 placed by a subspecies S . punctatus pulcherrimus Taranetz, in the Japan Sea by 

 two species S. nazawas Jordan and Snyder and S. ochriamkmi Taranetz. In northern 

 European seas S^. punctatus is absent along with several other common amphiboreal 

 types: Hemitripterus americanus , Aspidophoroides monopterygius, Pholis fasciatus, 

 Eumesogrammus praecisus, Microgadus proximus, etc . 



Our example from Providence Bay (Emma Bay) in 20-30 meters. Total length 127 mm 



D L, A II, 36 P 15 



83 Eumesogrammus praecisus (Kroyer) 



Clmus praecisus Kroyer Ichthy. Bidrag., Nzt. Tidsk. I, 1837, p. 25 (Greenland). 

 Clinus unimaculatus Reinhardt, Dansk Vidensk Nat. Math Afh. 1838, p. 21 



(Greenland) . 

 Ernogrammus storoshi Schmidt, Fish east, seas, 1904, p. 193 (East Sakahlin). 

 Eumesogrammus praecisus Schmidt & Andriashev, Copeia, 1935, p. 27, fig. 1-2 



(Synony . ) . 



This species was first recorded in the northern Pacific by P. Y. Schmidt (1904 

 as Ernogrammus storoshi sp. nov.) followed by numerous finds in Okhotsk Sea and 

 Bering Sea . )J A detailed comparison of our examples with the 100 year old Greenland 

 examples of Clinus praecisus Kroyer (= Clinus unimaculatus Reinhardt) shows them 

 to be conspecific . Thus it appears that the species commonly occurs amphiboreally, on 

 one side in the Okhotsk and Bering Seas and on the other in Greenland and Hudson Bay 

 (V. Vladykov, 1933, p. 23). In our collections are 79 examples from the northern 

 part of Bering Sea (from Cape Olytorsky to Bering Straits, inclusive) from depths 

 of 40 to 70 meters (rarely to 142 meters) usually on rocky gravel bottoms at 

 temperatures above zero. (See table in P. Schmidt & A. Andriashev, 1935, I.e., 

 p. 60). 



Eumesogrammus praecisus differs from all other types of Blenniids by having 

 the last 2-3 elements of the anal fin spinous . 



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Unknown m the eastern part of Bering Sea . 



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