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tion between the Anarrhichadids and Blenniids are manifest in the 

 scapular arch (especially the suprascapula), the actinosts, and the 

 absence of ventral fins. 

 The family may be defined as follows : 



Family ANARRHICHADIDS. 



SYNONYMS AS FAMILY. 



Ananhichadaidse (misprint) Gill, Can. Nat., (2), vol. 2, 1865, pp. 247, 252. 



Anarrhichaddx Gill, Arr. fam. Fishes, 1872, p. 4. 



Anarrihichse. Fitzinger Sitzungsber. k. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, vol. 67, abth. 1., 1873, 



p. 43. 

 Anarrhichadidx Smitt, Scand. Fishes, pt. 1, 1892, p. 231. 

 Anarhichadidse Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Middle Amer., pt. 3, 



1898, pp. 2343, 2445. 

 Gobioides, part, Cuvier, 

 Zoarcidx, part, Swainson, 

 Blenniidse, part, GUnther and others. 



SYNONYMS AS SUBFAMILY ANARRHICHADIN^. 



Anarrhichseformes Bleeker, Enum. sp. Piscium Arch. Ind., 1859, p. xxv. 

 Anarrhichaninx (misprint) Gill, Cat. Fishes North Amer., 1861, p. 46. 



Fig. 1.— ANARRlilClIAS LUPUS. 



Anarrhichadinse Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. Fishes North Amer., 1882, p. 755. 

 Anarrhichadinse Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Middle Amer., pt. 3, 

 1898, p. 2445. 



SYNONYM AS SUBFAMILY ANARRHICHTHYIN^. 



Anarrhichihyins'. Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Middle Amer., pt. 3, 



1898, p. 2445. 



Blennioidean fishes of a more or less elongated form without ventral 

 fins, with the head decurved around the snout, mouth deeply and 

 obliquely cleft, intermaxillaries abutting on and attached to front of 

 ethmoid, teeth on jaws, vomer and palatine bones at typically crowded 

 and molariform, the main ones of the lower jaw acrodont, others 

 external, dorsal with inarticulate rays or spines; cranium without a 

 myodome, attypically compressed behind eyes, and with the occipital 

 region declivous backward; suborbital semiring narrow and Math a 

 slight ophthalmophorous shelf; suprascapula simple (not forked), 

 hypercoracoid and hypocoracoid separated by membrane-like carti- 



