ANGLER FISHES — GILL. 



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various other designations. It has been described at lenj 

 present writer in " The life his- 

 tory of the angler," published 

 in 1905 in the Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections (vol. 

 XLVii, pp. 500-506, pis. Lxxiii- 

 Lxxv.). Three genera were then 

 noticed, Lophius, Lophiomus^ 

 and Lophiodes "■ or Chirolophius. 

 Since then a remarkable form 

 {Sladenia) has been described 

 by C. Tate Regan from the In- 

 dian Ocean (" Chagos Archi- 

 pelago, Salomon ") in the 

 Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society of London (ZooL (2), 

 XII, p. 250, pL 32, 1908). 



Figures are here added of the 

 side view of the body as well as 

 remarkable ovaries of the com- 

 mon angler and its skeleton, for 

 comparison with the Ggg raft of 

 the frog fish {Pterophryne) and 

 the skeleton of an Antennariid. 

 Regan's illustration of the Sla- 

 denia is also reproduced. 



THE ANTENNARIIDS. 



The richest in species (but not 

 in genera) of the families of 

 the Pediculate fishes is that of 

 the Antennariids. These spe- 

 cies are mostly inhabitants of 

 tropical coral seas of moderate 

 depths, but a few have estab- 

 lished homes in the midst of 

 floating seaweed, and others in 

 waters of considerable depth. 

 The most characteristic and 

 those which come most fre- 

 quently in the field of observa- 

 tion of ordinary travelers are 

 representatives of two genera, Antennarins and Pterophrync. 



The 



'^Lophiodes was proposed by Goode and Beau, Oceanic Iclitliyology, p. 537, in 

 1895-96. 



