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afskaaret. Legemet foran Anus forholder sig til Hale-payiiet, 

 som 1 ; lyi. Farven gulagtig med o sk)re hrimagtige -Tver- 

 phfter nedad Byggen; Mellemrnmmene opfijldte af mindre 

 og sragere Pletter, der hmne være næsten manglende; Cau- 

 dalen og Dorsalen med Tverbaand. Appeyidices pyloricae 

 2 — 3. Hannerne have stærkere Tænder, end Hunnerne. 

 Størrelsen imUil ISO"""- 



i¥. B. 6. D. 58—60 (61); A. ,36— 37 (35 eller 38); ' 

 P. 15 (16); V. 4; C. ijlSji (14). 



Iiocalit- fra NordL. Exped. Spitsbei'gen. 



Bemærkninger til Synonymien. Som det under 

 foregaaende Art er næviit. foiidt nllerede Prof. K-éiuhardt 

 (sen.)' i 1838 det 'liensigtsmæssigt at henføre denne Art, der 

 i Modsætning til de ovrige Lumpener. besad Tænder (foru- 

 den i Kjæverne) tillige paa Palatinbenene og paa Vomer, 

 under en egen Afdelin,;?. der blot indbefattede denne Art. 

 Vov denne foreslog Nilsson i 1855 i sin Skand. Fauna 

 Navnet (lenodon. Men da dette Navn allerede i 1830 var 

 benyttet af Wagler for et Reptil (Fam. Ameividae), i 1838 

 af Ebrenbei-g for en Infusorie (Rotatoria), og i 1839 af 

 Swainson for en Fisk. bliver Navnet Leptoclinus, fremsat af 

 Gill i 1861, men først i 1864 characteriseret, at anvende 

 for denne Underslægt. 



Mellem den Reinhardtske L. acideatus Ira Spitsber- 

 gen, og Fries's Art L. niacukitus fra Bohuslen, kan der 

 ikke paavises nogensomhelst Forskjel. Jeg har uoje sam- 

 menlignet det forhaandenværende Individ fra Spitsbergen 

 med andre fra Christianiafjorden og Bohuslen, og tinder 

 dem i alle Henseender overensstemmende. Straaleantallet ' 

 er gjennemsnitligt det samme; det under Nordhavs-Expedi- 

 tionen erholdte Individ havde D. 61; A. 37 ; P. 15—15, 

 medens et andet Individ fra Isfjorden paa Spitsbergen, som 

 jeg bnr havt til Undersøgelse fra Tromsø Musæum, havde 

 i Dorsalen 59, i Analen 35. saaledes at Tallet synes at 

 variere. 2 Exemplarer fra Christianiafjorden havde ' begge 

 i Dorsalen .58, i Analen 36 Straaler. 



At Fries's Navn macidatus ved Spørgsmaalet om. 

 Prioriteten bliver at anvende, kan neppe ansees for tvivl- 

 somt. Det Bind af det D. Vidensk. Selsk. Forh. (6te Del), 

 hvori Reinhardt opstillede sin Lmnpenus amleatus, udkom 

 i 1837. samme Aar. som Fries i Kgl. Vet. Akad. Handl. 

 udforligt beskrev' sin Clinus maculatus fra Bohuslen. Men 

 uagtet Reinhardt allerede havde omtalt sin Art under-Navn 



square. Length of hodg anterior to the rent is to that of 

 the caudal region as 1 to 1.3. Colour yeUmvish, the back 

 marked ivith 5 large brou-nish transverse spots ; the inte>-vah 

 filled up with smaller and less distinct spots, in some e.ramp- 

 les almost obsolete; caudal and dorsal traversed by trans- 

 verse hands. Pyloric appendages 2 — 3. The males have 

 stronger teeth than the females. Length reaching ISO'"'"- 



M. B. 6. D. 58—60 (61); A. 36—37 (35 or 38); 

 P. 15 (16); V. 4; C. 4 15/i (14). 



Locality (North Atl. Exped. 



Spitzbergen. 



Remarks on the Synonymy. — As previously stated, 

 in connexion with the foregoing species, Prof. Reinhardt 

 sen., so far back as 1838, saw fit to class L. maculatus, 

 which, unlike the other species, is furnished with teeth on 

 the vomer and the palatine bones as well as in the jaws, 

 in a separate sub-division, comprising this one species only. 

 In 1855, _ Nilsson suggested the name (lenodon for the 

 species, in his •'Skandinavisk Fauna." But this designation 

 having been adopted by Wagler, in 1830, for a reptile 

 (fam. Am&ividce), by Ehrenberg, in 1838, for a species of 

 infusoria (Rotaforia), and by Swainson, in 1839, for a fish, 

 the name Leprtoclinus — given- by Gill in 1861, but not 

 characterized till 1864 — will have to be retained for this 

 sub-genus. 



Between Reinliardt's L. aculeatus, from Spitzbergen, 

 and Fries's species L. maculatus, from Bohuslen, in Swe- 

 den, no difference whatever can be shown to exist. I have 

 carefully compared the individual, in question from Spitz- 

 bergen with examples faken in the Christiania Fjord, and 

 find them to be -in every respect identical. The number 

 of. fin-rays was generally the same. For the individual 

 taken on the North Atlantic Expedition, the fin-ray form- 

 ula is as follows: — D. 61; A. 37; P. 15 — 15; another 

 example, from the Istjord, Spitzbergen. in the Tromsø Mu- 

 seum, had D. 59 ; A. 35 : hence the number would appear 

 to vary. Two individuals, taken in the Christiania Fjord, 

 had each 58 in the dorsal ånd 36 in the anal. 



The question ■ of priority w'ith I'egard to nomenclature 

 must be decided in favour of maculatus, the synonym sug- 

 gested by Fries. In 1837 was published the volume of D. 

 Vid. Selsk. containing Reinliardt's establishment of the 

 species by the name of Lumpenus aculeatus; and the same 

 year Fries furnished a full description of his Clinus macu- 

 latus (from Bohuslen) in Kgl. Vet. Akad. Handl. Reinhardt 



