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540. Anarhichas minor Olafsen. 

 Wolf-fish. 



Marine. 



Range.s from beyond tlie Arctic; Circle southward on both sides of the Atlantic: occasionally 

 brought to Canso, Nova Scotia, by the fishermen:* "fishing banks off the coast" of 

 Nova Scotia (Jones, 1879): occurs on the New England coast, Iceland, and Norway. 



541. Anarhichas lupus Linnanis. (Plate XII, figures 144 and 14.5). 

 Wolf-fish. 



Marine. 



Both sides of north Atlantic southward to Cape Cod and France: Maritime Provinces, 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gaspe Bay. Labrador, and without doubt Newfoundland: "off 

 the coasts of Norfolk and Yorkshire, in Berwick Bay, in the Frith of Forth, and among 

 the Orkneys, occa.sionally also on the eastern coast of Ireland, and it is well-known 

 on the northern shores of Europe, and in Greenland and Iceland" (Yarrell, 1859). 



542. Anarhichas lepturus Bean. 

 Alaska Wolf-fish. 

 Marine. 



Ranges from Vancouver Island northward to coasts of Alaska, including the Aleutian 

 Islands, thence westward, perhaps, to Kamchatka (Pallas, 1811, as Ananhichas ori- 

 entalis) . 



543. Anarrhichthys ocellatus Ayres. 

 Wolf Eel. 



Marine. 



British Columbia and Puget Sound southward to coast of California. 



544. Scytalina cerdale .lordan and Gilliert. 



Marine: burrowing among rocks or living in gravel or wet-shingle between or near tide 



marks. 

 Recorded from Waadda Island, near Cape Flattery, State of Washington, at the entrance to 



the Straits of Juan de Fuca: given here as likely to occur on the British Columbian 



side of the Straits. 



545. Zoarces anguillaris Peck. (Plate XII, figures 146 and 147). 

 Eel Pout. 



Marine. . . 



Ranges from the coast of Labrador, embracing the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Maritime 

 Provinces, and doubtless Newfoundland, southward to the coast of Delaware. 



548. Lycodopsis pacificus CoUett. 

 Pacific Eel Pout. 

 Marine. 



British Columbia and Puget Sound southward to coast of California. 



*"Occa.'^ional specimens differing from the two foregoing [.4. latifrons and A. lupus] are occasionally brought 

 in by the fishermen, and appear to belong to this species. Like A. latifrons this is usuaUy regarded as a purely 

 .\rctic wolf-fish." Cornish. 



