Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 483 
Sealers liparis, Ross, Append. Parry’s Polar Voyage, p. 199. : 
«¢  Unctuous Sucker, PENNAN’’s Brit. Zodl., m1. p. 179, pl. 24. 
fe * ~~ Common Sea-Snail, Jenyns’s Brit. Vert., p. 472. 
Ear communis, Sasing, Append. Parry’s First Voyage, p. ccxii. 
Re Ross, Append., p. xlvii. 
Cyclopterus (Liparis) communis (Arrepr), Ricu., Fauna Boreal. Americ., 111. p, 263. 
2. Liparis gelatinosus, Patras. 
Body slender, oblong, compressed, thicker towards the head, gradually tapering to the 
tail. Color whitish, with a rosy tinge. Skin smooth ; flesh very soft, trembling like jelly 
when touched. Dorsal and anal fins dark violet ; pectoral fins flaccid and rounded. 
D. (?). P.(?). V.(?). A. (2). C. (2). Length, 18 inches. 
Seas between America and Kamtschatka, Panxas. 
Ovelaptams gelatinosus (PaLLas), Liy., GMEL. 
& Gelatinous Sucker, Saaw’s Gen. Zodl., vy. p. 393. 
FAMILY XXVI. ECHENEIDE. 
With a flattened disk upon the top of the head, composed of numerous car- 
tilaginous transverse plates, directed obliquely backwards, dentated or spinous 
at their posterior edge, and movable, by means of which they are enabled to 
attach themselves to other substances. 
GENUS I. ECHENEIS, Lin. 
Body elongated, covered with very small scales. A single dorsal fin, 
placed opposite the anal. Head very flat, covered with a disk ; mouth wide, 
with numerous small, recurved teeth on both jaws, tongue, and vomer. 
1. Echeneis albicauda, Mrrcnite. 
Body cylindrical, elongated. Above of a grayish slate-color; lighter upon the sides, 
with a dark band, which, commencing at the tip of the lower jaw, as a small black point, 
runs along its margin to the angle of the jaw, then, assuming a band, passes to the tail, 
interrupted only by the eyes. All the fins margined with white. Disk upon head, with 
twenty-one transverse plates, divided by a fleshy median line. 
D.29. P.18. V.5. A.30. C.18. Srorrer. Length, 12 to 20 inches. 
D.33. P.18. V.7. A.30. ©.18. Dexay. 
Massachusetts, Storer. New York, Mircuriy, Dexay. 
Echeneis albicauda, White-tailed Remora, Mrrcumt, Amer. Month. Mag., 11. p. 244. 
Echeneis naucrates, Indian Remora, Storrr’s Report, p. 153. 
Echeneis RID REnGry White-tailed Remora, Dexay’s Report, p. 307, pl. 54, fig. 177. 
i a Cs Srorer, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., rv. p. 133 
