j THK FISHES OF THE «INGOLF» EXPEDITIONS. 



Cyclopteridce and Liparididee. 



Cyclopterus (Eumicrotremus) spinosus (Fabr.). 



Of this well-known arctic species the Ingolf: -Expedition has brought home a young specimen 

 captured southwest of Sukkertoppen on station 33, 67° 5/ Eat North, 55 30' Long. West, at 35 fathoms, 

 sandy bottom, with a bottom-temperature of o°.S C. 



The species is known from Greenland, Norway, Iceland and Spitsbergen and from some parts 

 of the east coast of America («Oeeanic Ichthyology p. 272) and from the Bering-Sea as Cyclopterus 

 orbis Gthr. (Catal. Fishes III, p. 15S). It is also noted in Gilbert's paper of 1896 on the north-pacific 

 fishes (p.448) with a note that the identity of C. orbis and C. spinosus ought to be confirmed through 

 the confrontation of both types, while C. orbis is named without any further remark in Jordan and 

 rks's The fishes of Puget Sound (1895) p. 829 (Leland Stanford jun. University publications, 

 Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series II, vol. V). 



Liparis Reinhardti and L. micropus Gthr. 



Those, who may have consulted my little paper of 1886 on the Liparida ( Dijmphna expedition ) 

 or that of Collett from 1880 ( Norske Nordhavs Expedition ), will be aware, that the results arrived 

 at bv us with respect to the northern Eiparids were generally the following. We know 1) a Liparis 

 Montagui Don. and 2) a Liparis Uncut its (Lepechin), both of which make their appearance in uuicoloured, 

 spotted and striated varieties, the latter type perhaps identical as species with L. tun /'cut us and to be 

 considered as a minor variety or stage of evolution of the arctic form, which can attain a considerable 

 size and be furnished with a sort of small corneous tubercles or scales. 3) LJpuris Fubricii Kr. (with 

 the variety L. leprosu in.), best known from the Kara-Sea, determined after an original specimen of 

 Rimer's species, but after my opinion not to be identified with L. tunicutus, as it will be seen has 

 been done. 4) L. Reinhardti Kr., regarded by several as type for a particular genus (Careprocius), what 

 I do not find necessary, but further identified with L. gclatinosits Pall, perhaps correctly, though I can 

 not take upon me the responsibility of his identification. 



The result arrived at by F. Smitt in his great and handsome work on the * Fishes of 

 ndinavia does not differ much, but somewhat from that exposed above. He has 1) a Cycloguster 

 Montagui\ 2) a C. liparis, comprising a) as ■ forma microps > the varieties C. liucutus, vulgaris, burbutus 

 and tunicutus, b) as forma megalops my L. Fubricii] 3) C. gclatinosits Pall, o: L. (Curcproctus) Rein- 

 hardti, to which Liparis (Careproctus) micropus Gthr. perhaps also must be reckoned as a synonym. 



I shall add a review, as short as possible, of the further and extra-Scandinavian development 

 of the Liparis- question. Garman's monograph of the Discoboli (Cyclopteridce, Liparopsidw and 

 Liparididee) (Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College vol. XIV, No. 2) 

 distinguishes first a division, Cyclopteridce with the genera and species: Cyclopterus (lumpus), Eumicro- 

 tremus (spinosus and orbis) and Cyclopteroides gyrinops. The last mentioned type from St. Paul's Island 

 (Alaska) is distinguished partly by the position of small barbels along the margin of the lower jaw 

 te figures t. XI, fig. 4—9; 1x37 it is said in a less definite manner: .chin with tubular pores, or 



