Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 229 



small pointed teeth ; opercula small. Branchial rays, six. Pectorals very 

 ample, and almost uniting under the throat, as it were to embrace the disk of 

 the ventrals. 



GENUS I. LUMPUS, Cuv. 



Two dorsal fins ; the first dorsal fin so enveloped by a thick and tubercular 

 skin, that, externally, it might be* taken for a simple hump of the back ; second 

 dorsal with branched rays, opposite the anal. Body deep and rough, with 

 conical horny tubercles. 



I. Lumpus anglorum, Willoughby. 



Body suborbicular. All the upper part of the body of a bluish slate-color ; beneath yel- 

 lowish. The disk of a bright yellow color. The young fish is blue above r and almost en- 

 tirely white beneath. The whole surface of the body covered with an immense number of 

 small stellated tubercles, studding even the fin rays. Three rows of tubercles project from 

 each side, and another row projects from the dorsal ridge. 



D. — , 11. P. 20. A. 10. C- 12. Length, 8 to 20 inches. Weight, 1 to 18 pounds. 



Greenland, Fabiucius. Maine, Massachusetts, Storer. New York, Mitcuill, Dekay. 



Called " Neepeesa," il Angusedlok " (male), " Arnardlok '* (female), by Greenlanders. 



Cyclopterus lumpus, Lin., Syst Nat . i. p. 414. 



" " Lump, Bloch, hi. p. 92, pi. 90. 



Lumpus anglorum, Will., p. 208, No. 11. 



Cyclopterus lumpus, Lump-Sucker, Pennant's Brit. Zool., in. p. 176, pi. 24. 

 " " '• " Shaw's Gen. Zool., v. p. 3 



•" " Common Lump-fish, Jenvns's Brit. Vert., p. 471. 



" " Lump, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ., m. p. 260. 



" " Fabricids, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 131. 



" Lump-Sucker, Yarrell's Brit. Fishes (2d edit ), II. p. 36.",. fig. 

 Cyclopterus creruleus, Blue Lump fish, Mitchtll, Traus. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., I. p. 460, pi. 2, fig, 7. 

 Lumpus vulgaris, Cuv., Regne Animal, n. 



<( " Lump-Sucker, Stoker's Report, p. 151. 



Lumpus anglorum, Lump-Sucker, Dekay's Report, p. 305. 



2. Lumpus minutus, Pallas. 

 Body compressed, naked. Two white, unequal bony tubercles on each side. Snout 

 marked, above the mouth, by three tubercles. Tail even. Color whitish. 

 D. (?). P. (?)• V. (•'). A. (.'). C. (?). Length, 1 inch. 

 Greenland, Fabricius. 

 Called " Nepeesardlooarksook," by the Greenlanders. 



Cyclopterus minutus, Lin , Gubl. 



" " ( P a i . i . \ i, l :i his. Fauna Groenlandica, p. 135. 



" " Ross, Appendix, p. xlvi. 



" " Small Sucker, Shaw's Gon. Zobl., v. p. 396. 



" Diminutive Lump, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Amoric, 111. p. 262. 



