FISHES OF NEJW YORK 639 



Genus MYOXOCEPHAL.US (Steller) Tilesius 



Body slender or robust, subfusiform, covered with thick skin, 

 in which are sometimes embedded prickly plates; deciduous, 

 granular, or stellate tubercles also sometimes present, but no 

 true scales. Head large. Mouth terminal, large, the lower jaw 

 always included, the uppermost the longer; villiform teeth on 

 the jaws and vomer, none on the palatines; suborbital stay 

 strong; preopercle with two strong straight spines above 

 directed backward, and one below directed downward and for- 

 ward; opercle, nasal bones, orbital rim, and shoulder girdle more 

 or less armed; gill membranes forming a fold across the rather 

 narrow isthmus; slit behind last gill reduced to a mere pore, or 

 wanting; vertebrae about 28. Branchiostegals mostly six. 

 Dorsal fins two, separate, the first short, its spines rather slen- 

 der; ventral rays I, 3; caudal fin moderate, fan-shaped; pectoral 

 fin broad, its lower rays procurrent. Lateral line well devel- 

 oped, its tubes sometimes provided with bony or cartilaginous 

 plates, never chainlike nor reduced to separated pores. Species 

 numerous, in the seas of northern regions; coarse fishes, little 

 valued as food. 



Subgenus ACANTHOCOTTUS Girard 



312 Myoxocephalus aeneus (Mitchill) 



Grubby; Brassy Sculpin; Pigmy Sculpin 



Coitus ccneus MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 380, 1815, New 



York; CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. IV, 189, 1829; 



DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 52, 1842 (not figure); GOODE & BEAN, 



Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 13, 1879; JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. 702, 1883; BEAN, 19th Rep. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 251, 1890. 

 Coitus scorpio MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 380, 1815, New 



York. 

 Coitus mitcMlli CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. IV, 188, 1829, 



New York; DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 53, pi. 17, fig. 47, 1842; 



GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 164, 1860. 

 ('ottus (Acan-tJiocottusJ anceps SAUVAGE, Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Paris (2), I, 145, 



pi. 1, fig. 13, 1878, New York. 

 Acanthocottus wneus BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist IX, 369, 1897; H. M. 



SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 105, 1898. 

 Myoxocephalus ceneus JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. II, 



1972, 1698, pi. CCXCV, fig. 716, 716a, 1900. 



