﻿DESCRIPTIONS 
  OF 
  TWO 
  NEW 
  FISHES 
  OF 
  THE 
  GENUS 
  

   TRIGLOPS 
  FROM 
  THE 
  ATLANTIC 
  COAST 
  OF 
  NORTH 
  

   A]\IERICA. 
  

  

  By 
  Charles 
  H. 
  Gilbert, 
  

  

  Professor 
  of 
  Zoology, 
  Stanford 
  University. 
  

  

  The 
  cottoid 
  genus 
  Triglops 
  has 
  been 
  assumed 
  to 
  be 
  represented 
  in 
  

   the 
  North 
  Atlantic 
  by 
  a 
  single 
  species, 
  Triglops 
  pingeli, 
  supposed 
  to 
  

   be 
  common 
  to 
  the 
  European 
  and 
  American 
  coasts, 
  if, 
  indeed, 
  not 
  

   circumpolar 
  in 
  its 
  distribution. 
  This 
  fixed 
  idea 
  has 
  been 
  responsible, 
  

   doubtless, 
  for 
  the 
  long 
  neglect 
  of 
  American 
  material, 
  although 
  such 
  

   notes 
  concerning 
  it 
  as 
  have 
  been 
  published 
  have 
  indicated 
  a 
  form 
  

   with 
  fewer 
  fin 
  rays 
  than 
  any 
  known 
  species 
  and, 
  furthermore, 
  with 
  a 
  

   distinctive 
  black 
  oceUated 
  spot 
  on 
  the 
  spinous 
  dorsal 
  fin, 
  wholly 
  

   unknown 
  elsewhere. 
  

  

  Through 
  the 
  kindness 
  of 
  the 
  authorities 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   National 
  Museum 
  the 
  writer 
  has 
  had 
  the 
  privilege 
  of 
  examining 
  all 
  

   their 
  American 
  material 
  from 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  coast, 
  and 
  describes 
  

   therefrom 
  the 
  following 
  new 
  species 
  from 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  New 
  England 
  

   and 
  a 
  new 
  subspecies 
  from 
  the 
  region 
  of 
  Newfoundland: 
  

  

  TRIGLOPS 
  OMMATISTIUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   Plate 
  64. 
  

  

  Triglops 
  pingeli 
  Goode 
  and 
  Bea>j, 
  Bull. 
  Essex 
  Inst., 
  vol. 
  11, 
  1897, 
  p. 
  13. 
  — 
  

   Jordan 
  and 
  Gilbert, 
  Fish. 
  North 
  Amer., 
  1882, 
  p. 
  713.— 
  Goode 
  and 
  Bean, 
  

   Oceanic 
  Ichth., 
  1895, 
  p. 
  267, 
  fig. 
  256. 
  Not 
  of 
  Reinhardt. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  73921, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  a 
  male, 
  105 
  mm. 
  long 
  to 
  base 
  

   of 
  caudal, 
  the 
  caudal 
  fin 
  injured, 
  the 
  total 
  length 
  approximately 
  

   120 
  mm; 
  from 
  Gloucester, 
  Massachusetts. 
  

  

  Measurements 
  in 
  hundredths 
  of 
  total 
  length 
  without 
  caudal: 
  

   Length 
  of 
  head 
  30; 
  length 
  of 
  snout 
  9; 
  diameter 
  of 
  orbit 
  8.2; 
  inter- 
  

   orbital 
  width 
  3; 
  length 
  of 
  maxillary 
  13; 
  greatest 
  depth 
  of 
  body 
  18; 
  

   least 
  depth 
  of 
  caudal 
  peduncle 
  4.2. 
  

  

  Dorsal 
  XI, 
  21; 
  anal 
  20; 
  pectoral 
  17; 
  ventral 
  I, 
  3. 
  Plates 
  along 
  

   lateral 
  line 
  45. 
  

  

  Proceedings 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum, 
  Vol. 
  44— 
  No. 
  1963. 
  

   69077°— 
  Proc.N.M.\ 
  01.44— 
  13 
  ^30 
  465 
  

  

  