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2357. AcanthocottiLS octodecimspinosus (MitcMll). Common Sculpin ; Eighteen- 



s pined Sciiljyin. 

 Atlantic Coast south to Virginia; common, northward. 

 Ccttus octodecimspinosKS Mitchill, Trans. Lit. I'hil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 380, New 



York. 



2358. Acanthocottus platycephalus (Pallas). 



Kamchatka. 



Coitus platycephalus Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., iii, 135, 1811, Kamchatka; 

 after Stelier. 



2359 Acanthocottus scorpioides (Fabricius). 



Arctic regions of America, Greenland to Siberia. 



Cotti.s scorpioides Fabricius, Fauna Gra-nl., 157, 1780, Greenland. 



2360. Acanthocottus scorpius (Linnoeus). European Sculpin. 



Northern Europe and Arctic regions, not conuuon on our coasts; recorded 

 by J)r, Liitken from the Baltic, Finlanil, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, 

 coasts of England and northern Asia; also from Eastport, Maine. 



Cottus scorpius LinmBus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 265, 1758, in Atlantic Ocean off 

 Europe. 



2361. Acanthocottus groenlandicus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Daddi/ Sculpin. 



New York to Greenland; according to Fabricius it is abundant in all the 



bays and inlets of Greenland. 

 Cottus granlandicus Cuvier & Va.enciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 156, 1829, 



no locality given, probably Greenland ; after Fabricius, 



2362. Acanthocottus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas). 



Piiget Sound to Alaska; very abundant northward. 



Cottus polyacanthocephalu Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., iii, 133, 1811, no lo- 

 cality . 



2363. Acanthocottus humilis (Bean). 



Chamisso Island, near Bering Straits. 



Cottus liumilis Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu3., iv, 1881, 149, Chamisso Island, 

 Bering Straits. 



2364. Acanthocottus jack (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Kamchatka. 



Cottus jaolc Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poi.ss.,iv, 172, 1829, Kamchatka. 



Subgenus BOREOCOTTUS (iill. 



Boreocottus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 166 {axillaris). 



2365. Acanthocottus verrucosus (Bean). 



Plo\cr Bay, Siberia, near Bering Straits. 



Cottus nrriiKisus Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 152, Plover Bay, Siberia. 



2366. Acanthocottus niger (Bean). 



St. Paul Island, Bering Sea. 



Cottus niger Bean, Proc. U. S. N. M., iv, 1881, 151, St. Paul Island, Bering Sea. 



2367. Acanthocottus axillaris (Gill). 



Bering Straits. 



Boreocottus auiVaris Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 166, Bering Straits. 



2368. Acanthocottus polaris (Sabine). 



East side of the peninsula of Boothia. 



Coitus polaris Sabine, Appendix Pnrry's First Voyage, ccxiil, 1819, north 

 Georgia; not recognized by recent writeis, the generic relations 

 uncertain; Liitken compares it with Icelus bicornis, but it must be 

 different 



2369. Acanthocottus quadrifilis (Gill). 



Bering Straits. 



rorocottus quadrifilis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 166, Bering Straita. 



2370. Acanthocottus sellaris Gilbert. 



Bristol Bay, Alaska. 



Acanthocottus sellaris Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fish Com. 1893 (1896), 419, Bristol 

 Bay, at Albatrosa Stations 3229, 3231, and others, in 5 to 17 fathoms. 



