ggß Frits Johansen. 



spot, which however melts into the dark colour on the head and 

 dorsum. With exception of A and V the fms have pigment on the 

 rays in the form of spots. 



At ca. 80 mm (PI. XLV, fig. 8) and upwards the bifurcated figure 

 on the caudal peduncle is no longer in connection with the marking 

 of the tail; the latter differs from the previous stage in being com- 

 pletely broken up into rounded or branched spots (the first along 

 D-, the last along A and end of the tail). The oblique stripes from 

 the eyes are now transformed to more irregular figures. The anal 

 fin now has pigment spots like the other fins (except V). 



Cyclopterus spinosus O. Fabr. 



This species, which when older with Liparis fabricii Kr., Care- 

 proctus reinhardti Kr. and several Ly codes species composes the fish- 

 fauna characteristic of the deeper layers (over ca. 50 m) in the fjords 

 of North-East Greenland, has been taken on the Expedition both in 

 Danmarks Havn and in the surrounding waters. At the former 

 place, it is probably only the young which occur (the 5 taken 

 measured 18 — ca. 30 mm) and it seems as if there was a bathymétrie 

 distribution with age even among these, the youngest being taken 

 in the Laminaria region, the older between this and the Delesseria 

 (Lithotamnion) region or exclusively in the latter. Specimens of 

 less than 18 mm were not taken on the Expedition but Kofoed ^ 

 has found the fry of 11 — 165 mm in — 7 m at Spitzbergen, which 

 is in full agreement with my observations, and gives reason to con- 

 clude, that they also occur in the littoral region at North-East 

 Greenland. 



In spite of the many fishing experiments which were made in 

 Danmarks Havn, only 5 Cyclopterus were taken ; it is thus far from 

 being among the common fishes, such as Liparis liparis not to 

 mention Icelus hamatus and Triglops pingelii. — The larger specimens 

 (over ca. 50 mm long) are not found in the shallow Danmarks Havn, 

 but were taken in the surrounding waters (Stormbugt, Øresund) in 

 deeper water (ca. 150 m). Sometimes (Maroussia 17/7 07 and Dove- 

 bugt July 1908) dead fish occur on the ice or in holes of melting 

 water and ice; it is probably the pressure of the masses of water 

 during the melting of the ice or currents in deep water which have 

 brought them up from their natural habitat. When young they are 

 found both on soft and hard bottom, attaching themselves by their 

 sucker to the algae in the former for want of stones. Yet the hard 

 kind of bottom is their true habitat and the larger specimens 



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