Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 481 
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, Cvv. 
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. 
Lumpus anglorum, WiLtoucuey. 
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, 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, Fanricius. Maine, Massachusetts, Storer. New York, Mrircuim, Dexay. 
Called ‘* Neepeesa,”’ ‘‘ Angusedlok”’ (male), ‘‘ Arnardlok ’’ (female), by Greenlanders. 
Cyclops lumpus, Lrn., Syst. Nat.,1. p. 414. 
O fay) Brocu, m1. p. 92, pl. 90. 
Lumpus anglorum, Witt., p. 208, No. 11. 
CRORE IE Say seSIEeL Pennant’s Brit. Zoél., mt. p. 176, pl. 24, 
3 SHaw’s Gen. Zool., v. p. 338, pl. 166.’ 
us ue Common Lump-fish, JENyNs’s Brit. Vert., p. 471. 
ub a Lump, Ricn., Fauna Boreal. Americ., 111. p. 260, ‘ 
se oa Fasricivs, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 131. 
Us rE Lump-Sucker, Yarrety’s Brit. Fishes (2d edit.), 1. p, 365, fig. 
Cyclopterus ceruleus, Blue Lump-fish, Mircnm1, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., 1. p. 480, pl. 2, fig. 7. 
Hato: vulgaris, Cuv., Régne Animal, 1. 
We june: Sucker, Srorer’s Report, p. 151. 
Lumpus anglorum, Lump-Sucker, Dexay’s Report, p. 305. 
2. Lumpus minutus, Panias. 
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. (2). A.(?). ©. (2). Length, 1 inch. 
Greenland, Fasricius. 
Called ‘‘ Nepeesardlooarksook,’’ by the Greenlanders. 
opealeigiaste: SATIRE Lin., GMEL. 
(Patzas), Fasricius, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 135. 
oa « _ Ross, Appendix, p. xlvi. 
Wo as Small Sucker, SHaw’s Gen, Zodl., v. p. 396. 
iu an Diminutive Lump, Ricu., Fauna Boreal. Americ., 111. p. 262, 
