BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 24. AFD. IV. N:0 9. 35 
from the Feroe-Channel. East of Spitzbergen we find in 
the Kara-Sea Aspidophoroides olriki which has not been found 
at Spitzbergen, although it is recorded from Greenland, and 
still further east we meet more new or parallel forms (for 
instance Gymmnocanthus pistilliger PALLAS) with exclusively 
eastern distribution and therefore not mentioned in this table. 
West of Spitzbergen and Jan Mayen at Greenland and Arctic 
America new components could be added to our list,! which 
however can be omitted here in a paper dealing with the 
fishes of Spitzbergen, but none of those mentioned by TRAUTZSCH 
as western can be regarded as such. It is also decidedly wrong 
to mention Cyclopterus spinosus as a fish prefering »die west- 
lichen und sädlichen Gebiete der Grönland- und Spitzbergen- 
see». It is an exclusively arctic and most probably circum- 
polar species. Lastly TraurzscH calls Gadus saida (>Boreo- 
gadus polaris>) »eine spezifiseh spitzbergensche Form». The 
polar cod is, however, distributed from Grinnells Land to 
Pitlekaj and most probably is completely arctic circumpolar. 
There is thus not a single fish which can be said to be spe- 
cifie for Spitzbergen and the value of TrRaAutzscH ichthyo- 
graphical dispositions can fairly well be reduced to zero. 
From a bathymetrical view the fishes mentioned above 
can be divided in two classes, namely 1) such that live in 
comparatively less depth round the land plateaus and 2) such 
that live in the greatest oceanic abysses or are benthopelagic. 
By far the greatest number belongs to the first class, and in 
the second, which as yet is insufficiently ? known, only a few 
forms can be counted, namely Cyclogaster bathybii and gelati- 
nosus, the Macruride, Onos reinhardti (caught by the Norw. 
North Atl. Exp. in a depth of 1,203 m.), Rhodichthys, Lyco- 
dide, Scopelide etc. (perhaps Hippoglossus hippoglossoides), 
but no sharp limits can be drawn in this respect with regard 
to some of the species, because some of them can descend to 
great depth.? According to this, however, we find that only 
3 species in this collection can be regarded as belonging to 
the deep water fauna. 
! For instance in the Denmark Strait: Macrurus goodei GÖNTHER and 
M. simulus GoopE and BEAN, Aphanopus minor CoLLETtt, Mawuwrolicus tri- 
punctulatus ESMARK, Raja fylle LÖTKEN etc. 
2 I expect to see very great additions to our knowledge about the 
deep water fishes made when the results of the Danish Ingolf Expedition are 
published. 
3 Cottunculus microps is caught in a depth of 459 fathoms. 
