Family Ptilichthyidae 



87. Ptilichthys goodei Bean 



First found on our coasts of the Bering Sea by A. Y. Taranetz (1933) in a 

 cod stomach taken from Litke Bay at 40 meters depth on a clay bottom . 



Total length 300 mm . Head 4. 7% of TL, depth of body 1 . 9% TL, eye 14. 1% of 

 head. Barbel of lower jaw a little less than diameter of eye, 11.8% of head. A 

 second example of this rare species was taken by K. I. Panin at the mouth of 

 Avachin Bay (1935). 



Family Zoarcidae (sensu lato) 



88 . Lycodes palearis palearis Gilbert 



Lye odes palearis Gilbert Rept US Fish Comm, 1895, p. 454 (Bristol Bay, 



36-46 fath.). 

 Lycodes digitatus Gill & Town send Proc . Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 61, 1897, 



p. 232 (Bristol Bay, 49 fath.). 



Lycodes palearis includes a large group of forms inhabiting all North Pacific 

 seas. The study of our rich material for eastern seas of the genus Lycodes indi- 

 cated that this group is represented by four closely related forms, classified as 

 subspecies: 



1. Lycodes palearis palearis Gilbert (=L. digitatus Gill & Towns^nd) east 



Bering Sea south to Oregon . 

 2 . Lycode s palearis arcticus Taranetz and Andriashev subsp . nov . Anadyr Giilf 



north to Chukchi Sea . 



3 . Lycodes palearis brashnikovi Soldatov Okhotsk Sea (and probably even SE 



Kamchatka) . 



4 . Lycodes palearis fasciatus (Schmidt) (= Lycenchelys fasciatus Schmidt, 1904) 



North Japan Sea and Aniva Bay. 



The examples of Gilbert's typical subspecies were from Bristol Bay. The 

 KRASNOARMEIETZ expedition (1932) collected them at a number of stations also 

 in the eastern part of the Bering Sea from the Priblov Ids . almost to Cape Navarin 

 where this form approaches the common L. palearis arcticus Taranetz and Andiiashev 

 of the North . 



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