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Stks. ; Triglops, Reinh. ; Blcpsias, C. and V. ; Scorpaenichthys, Gir. — 

 Northern seas. Sclerocottus, Fisch. ; Antarctic. Psychrolutes, Gthr. ; 

 N. Pacific. 



Fig. 47">. 

 Lijimi.-- Dennyi, .1. and 8. (From Jordan ami Evermann.) 



Family Cyclopteludae. Differing from the closely allied Cottidae 



in the reduction of the size ol 

 scales, and in the formation of 



the hranchial opening, the spines, and 



\ sucking disc by the pelvic fins (Fig. 



476). There is no myodome. The 



thick skin is naked or with scattered 



embedded spines and tubercles. 



Gyclopterus, Art., the Lump-Sucker; 

 IAparops, Garm. ; Liparis, Art. (Fig. 

 475); Paraliparis, Coll. — marine, 

 widely distributed. 



Sub-Tribe C. With a very de- 

 pressed spiny head, no eye -muscle 

 canal, well- developed scapula and 

 coracoid, and very flattened radials, 

 widely separated pelvic fins, and 

 spineless anal. 



Family Platycephalidae. With 

 small scales. 



Platycephalus, Schn. ; Indo-Pacific. 

 Family Hoplichthyidae. With an incomplete cuirass, the post- 

 temporal fused to the skull, and an armour of bony spiny plates. 

 Hoplichthys, C. and V. ; Bembras, C. and V. — W. Pacific, 



FlG. 476. 



Liparis Dennyi, J. and 8. Ventral view, 

 showing sucker formed by the united pelvic 

 fins. (From Jordan and Evermann.) 



Tiube 5. Blenniiformes (Jugulares + Pediculati). 



The families contained in this fifth Tribe, which seem to have 

 started from some primitive Perch-like fish with pelvics bearing one 

 spine and five dermal jointed rays, and a subocular shelf at least on the 

 second suborbital, form perhaps but an artificial assemblage. The 

 second and third divisions (B and C) are doubtless related to each 

 other, and perhaps also to some of the more specialised Perciformes ; 



