THE FISHES OF THE «INGOLF.. EXPEDITIONS. 



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for younger and for older specimens. In the very youngest specimens the extension of the scale- 

 covering is more limited — on the belly to the region before the ventrals, while the belly proper is 

 entirely without scales. The shape of the snout is here the same as in other Macmn\ not bowlike 

 rounded, but sharply triangular. The first dorsal fin begins immediately over the insertion of the 

 pectorals, which again is in the \-ertical from the first point of the \-entrals. The first longest rays 

 of the ventrals are almost equal with those of the pectorals, but shorter than those of the first dorsal 

 fin. The number of rays is i + n in this fin, 19 in the pectorals, 8 in the ventrals. The teeth are 

 minute, almost hidden between the papillse of the mouth. 

 Of the other northern sjaecies 



Macrurus (Coryphaenoides) rupestris Gunu. (M. StrGmii Rhdt., norvegicus Nilsson) 



(figured in « Voyage en Scandinavie , Poissons, pi. 11, in Smitt's Scandinavian fishes, pi. XXVU, A, 

 fig. 2, and in Col left's <. Poissons provenaut des campagnes du yacht THirondellej (1885 — 88) 1896, 

 pi. 10, fig. II) there is also a large number of specimens partly from the same localities, where M. 

 Fabricii was caught, f. inst. : 



Stat. 27: 64" 54' Lat. N., 55^ 10' Long. W., 393 fath., bottom temp. 3''.8 C. | 



Davis Strait. 



— 35:65^16' — 55^05' — 362 — — 3°.6C.) 



parth' from others, f. inst. 



Stat. 25: 63'30'Lat. N., 54" 25' Long. W., 582 fath., bottom temp. 3^.3 C, Davis Strait. 



— 41: 61^39' — i7"io' — 1245 — — 2\o C, South of Iceland. 



Also two larger specimens from 



Stat 90: 64^45' Lat. N., 29 06' Long. W., 568 fath., bottom temp. 4''.4 C, length 485"""! , ^ . 



} Denmark Strait 



— 97:6528' — 27^39' — 450 — — 5=.5C., — 730'"™) 



Young specimens of J/ nipcstris are captured on the following localities: 



Stat 25: 63-30' LatN., 54''25'Long.W., 582 fath., soft blue-clayish mud, bottom temp. 3''.3 C. Davis Strait 



— soft gray clay, bottom temp. 3°.8 C. Davis Strait 



— dark gray mud, bottom temp. 3.3 C. South of Iceland. 



— bottom temp. 4".i7C. West of Faroe Islands. 



— mud, bottom temp. 3^.9 C. South of Iceland. 



— mud, bottom temp. 6.1 C. ) 



\ Southwest of Iceland. 



— mud, bottom temp. 3°. 5 C. ) 



The largest specimen has a length of 28 inches, the smallest of 2'Vi6 inches. As to the geo- 

 graphical distribution, for which the above cited work of Collett may be referred to, it may be 

 remarked, that beyond the shores of West-Greenland and Norway (from Helgeland to Christianiafjord 

 and Bohuslan) this «Berglax» is known from the sea between Shetland and the Faroe Islands and has 

 several times found its waj' to the most northern shores of Denmark. In <^ Oceanic Ichthyology* p. 403 



The Ingolf-Expedition. 11. i. 4 



