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hort, kun uhetydeligt længere, end Smulen. Anus ligger 

 midt meUem Snudespidsen og sidste Halehvirvel. Afstanden 

 fra Snudespidsen til 2den Dorsal indeholdes 3,3 Gange i 

 Totallængden. Ensfarvet rødgraa, med Skjægtraadene og 

 Finnernes' Sx>idser røde. Længden indtil 318""". 



M. B. 7. D. 54—59; A. 45—46; P. 22—24; 



V. 8; a 28. 



Localit. fra NorcLh. Exped. Havet vestenfor Bee- 

 ren Eilaiul. 



Bemærkninger til Synonymien. Denne Art. livoraf 

 Nordhavs-Expeditionen erholdt 2 Individer, kunde bidtil 

 ikke opvise nogen Diagnose, og var ikke nogeusinde bleven be- 

 skreven, eudskjont den allerede for omtr. 30 Aar siden erholdt 

 det Navn, hvorunder den fremdeles opføres, og under hvil- 

 ket den flere Gange er bleven omtalt. Henførelsen af 

 Nordhavs -Expeditionens Individer under denne Art har 

 derfor Ijlot kunnet gjores efter en umiddelbar Sammenlig- 

 ning med Typ-Exemplarerne i Kjøbenhavn. 



Allerede i 1823 erholdt Musæet i Kjøbenhavn gjeunem 

 Holboll nedsendt et Exemplar af denne Art fra Grønland, 

 og senere erholdtes yderligere 3, ligeledes fra Grønland. 

 Det ene af disse, der er det største af alle, indsendtes den 

 24de Nov. 1836; af de øvrige bærer det ene Angivelsen 

 26de Aug. 1841, og det sidste er sandsyuligvis iudkommet 

 omtrent samtidigt. 



Først i 1838 findes et (det første) af disse Individer 

 omtalt, nemlig i Reinhardts Fortegnelse over Grønlands 

 Fiske (Kgl. D. Vid. Selsk. Nat. Math. Afh. 7 Del, p. 115), 

 men er her blot opført' uden videre Angivelse som „MotelIa 

 mustela, Lin. Holboll, Godthaab". Med Krøyer's Haand- 

 skrift er Reinhardts Benæ^^lelse paa det uævnte holboUske 

 Exemplar senere rettet til il/, reinhardti, hvilket Navn og- 

 saa er tildelt de øvrige Individer; under dette Navn er 

 den ogsaa af Krøyer opført i den haandskrevne Catalog 

 over Musæets grønlandske Fiskesamling, men uden at han 

 nogetsteds har meddelt den nye Ai'ts Diagnose eller Be- 

 skrivelse. 



Den næste Gang, Arten findes omtalt, er i 1857 i 

 Reinhardts (jun.) „Naturhistoriske Tillæg til Rinks Grøn- 

 lands Beski-ivelse" (B. 2, Appendix p. 25), hvor den op- 

 føres med det af Krøyer givne Navn uden videre Diagnose 

 eller Beskrivelse. Det er øjensynlig efter dette Skrift, at 

 Arten i 1861 omtales af Gill i hans „Catal. Fishes East 



ray in first dorsal short, being very little longer than snout. 

 Vent placed midway hetween the point of the snout and the 

 last caudal vmiebra. Distance from snout to second dorsal 

 is to total length as 1 to 3.3. Colour a uniform reddish- 

 hroivn; cirri and fin-points red. Length reaching 318'"'". 



M. B. 7. 2 D. 54—59; A. 45—46; P. 22—24; 

 V. 8; a 28. 



Locality (North Atl. Exped.) 

 west of Beereii Eiland. 



— The open sea 



Remarks on the Synonymy. — This species, of 

 which two examples were obtained on the North Atlantic 

 Expedition, liad not previously been diagnosticated at all, 

 and never once described, notwithstanding, it was given 

 the name by which it is still known, and under which 

 it has been repeatedly recorded, upwards of 30 years 

 ago. Hence the identification of the two individuals taken 

 on the Expedition necessarily involved a direct, autoptical 

 comparison witli the typical • specimens preserved in 

 Copenhagen. 



In 1823, the Zoological Museum at Copenhagen 

 first came into possession of an example of this species, 

 sent from Greenland by HolbøU; and subsequently three 

 other specimens were obtained, likewise from ( Greenland. 

 One of these individuals I'eached its destination Nov. 

 24th 1836; of the otlier two, one bears date Aug. 26th 

 1841, and the third probably came to hand about the 

 same time. 



No one of these examples was recorded till 1838, 

 when Reinhardt included one of them in his List of 

 Greenland Fishes (Kgl. D. Vid. Selsk. Nat. Math. Afh. 

 7 Del, p. 115), merely recording it however, without 

 further remark, as "Motella, mnstela. Lin. Holboll, Godt- 

 haab." Reinhardts designation for this specimen was after- 

 wards corrected, in Kriiyer's handwriting, to M. reinhardti, 

 and this name also assigned to the other individuals; with 

 this name, too, Kroyer has classed the species in his 

 manuscript Catalogue for the Collection of Greenland fishes, 

 but without hanng anywhere furnished a diagnosis or 

 description of the new species. 



The species was next recorded in 1857. by Rein- 

 hardt jun., in his "Naturhistoriske Tillæg til Rinks Grøn- 

 lands Beskrivelse" (B. 2, Appendix p. 25), where it is 

 classed with the synonym given by Kroyer, no diagnosis 

 or description, however, being annexed. It was obviously 

 to this work Gill had recourse in 1861, when recording 



