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or two series on base of pectoral. D. 5 or 6; A. 5 or 6; P. 9; V. 

 I, 2; C. 10 or 11; pyloric caeca four or five; lateral line about 50. 



Color brownish, pale below, with indefinite cross bands of 

 darker, two in front of, and one under dorsal, and two or three 

 on caudal peduncle; rays of dorsal and upper rays of pectoral 

 brownish, interrupted by lighter, giving an indefinite appear- 

 ance of cross bands; caudal dark; ventrals and anal in both 

 sexes pale. 



This fish reaches a length of 6 inches; it is found in moderate 

 depths from Greenland to Rhode Island and doubtless occurs 

 off Long Island in suitable depths though specimens have not 

 been recorded in New York waters. The species is very fre- 

 quently obtained from the stomachs of haddock and cod, and 

 the trawl has taken it in depths as shallow as 44 fathoms. In 

 1874 the head of a sea poacher was dredged up on the " Pecten 

 Ground," off Watch Hill B. I. The fish exists in great abundance 

 in Massachusetts bay and farther north. 



Family CYCLOPTERIDAE 



Lump Suckers 



Group CYCLOPTERINAB 



Genus CYCL.OPTERUS (Artedi) Linnaeus 



Body more or less compressed toward the back, somewhat 

 triangular in a transverse section at the first dorsal, covered 

 with conical, rough, bony tubercles; head short, thick, subquad- 

 rangular in a cross section; snout blunt, rounded; mouth 

 anterior, opening slightly upward ; teeth simple, small, arranged 

 in a band; eye moderate, lateral; dorsals two; caudal distinct; 

 disk moderately large, anterior, below the head; no barbels 

 about the mouth; first dorsal fin in the adult completely hidden 

 by the skin, the larger tubercles of the flanks, though in regular 

 series, having a scattered appearance. One species, reaching a 



considerable size, in the north Atlantic. 



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318 Cyclopterns lumpus Linnaeus 

 Lumpfish; Lumpsucker 



Cyclopterus coendeus MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 480, pi. II, 

 fig. 7, 1815, New York Harbor. 



amjlorum DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 305, pi. 54, fig. 175, 1842; 

 STOREB, Hist. Fish. Mass. 208, pi. XXXII, fig. 2, 1867. 



