Color of body grayish, lighter below. 13 narrow light bars across body, con- 

 tinuing diagonally on dorsal fin. In alcohol the lines fade and disappear, being 

 generally faint in adults. Top of gill openings connected with light lines. All 

 fins light, dorsal and anal bordered by a black line which widens posteriorly. 



Pyloric caeca 2, both tubercle shaped. Diameter of eggs 3.3 mm (average 

 of 10 eggs). Our examples 149-232 mm. in length. 



L. brevipes has been known only along the American coast from Bristol Bay and 

 the Aleutians south to Puget Sound. Recent data indicate their distribution is 

 wider; north of Bering Sea it is replaced by a closely related formi./ and also 

 represented by a distinct form in the Okhotsk Sea. 



91. Lycodes soldatovi Taranetz & Andriashev 



Lycodes soldatovi Taranetz & Andriashev, Zool. Anz. 1935, Ed. 113, Heft 

 9/10, p. 246, fig. 3. 



The archibenthal species of Okhotsk Sea. In the ichthyological laboratory 

 of LGU (Leningrad State University) is a single example which cannot be distinguish- 

 ed from the Okhotsk form from Olytorski Gulf (PALTUS, 1932 M. Vernidub). However 

 our identification is not certain. See details in original description. 



92 . Lycodes raridens Taranetz and Andriashev Sp . nov . 



Lycodes sp. Schmidt Fish east seas, 1904, p. 199 (East Sakahlin, Cape Rimnik). 

 Lycodes schmidti Soldatov Ann Mus Zool. Acad Sci Petrab. vol. 22, 1917, p. 



115, fig. 2 (in part, after Schmidt's specimen). 

 Lycodes knipowitschi Popov Explo. Seas SSSR, GGI, vol. 14, 1931, pp. 139-140 



(in part, "varitie or juveniles") . 



rt'Ty r^^ 



Fig. 14. Lycodes raridens Taranetz & Andriashev, sp. nov. Type. Southern 

 part of Anadyr Gulf. 



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The inability to compare our material with the types of L. brevipes Bean coupled 

 with Bean's short description does not permit us to insist on the differences of 

 our form, it probably will be classified as a subspecies. 



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