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Inhabits the Atlantic coast of North America from Greenland 

 to ("ape Hatteras in deep waters. It reaches a depfh in the Gulf 

 Stream of 108] fathoms. The fish is described and figured by 

 Goodc and Bean in Oceanic Ichthi/ologi/, p. 381, fig. 327. It is a 

 small species, scarcely reaching i foot in length, and is without 

 importance as food. 



Genus enchelyopits B1. & Schn. 



Barbels four, one at each nostril, one at tip of snout, and one 

 at the cliin; head high and compressed anteriorly; teeth in nar- 

 row bands, .^ome of them enlarged; otherwise essentially as in 

 (1 a i d r o ]) .< a r u s . North Atlantic. 



355 Enchelyopus cimbrius (Linnaeus) 

 Fouy-hearded RockUug 



a<i(liis cinhhrii<>< Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. XII. I, 440, 1T6G, Atlantic Ocean. 

 Motelhi caiKkiciita Storee, Hist. Fish. Mass. 183. pi. XXIX, fig. 1, ISeiT. 

 0)io,s cimhritis Joudan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 797, 1883. 

 Rhinoiicmus cimhrins Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichtli. 384, fig. 328. 1896; 



H. M. Sjiith, Bull. r. S. F. C. 1897, 107, 1898; Sherwood & Edavards, 



Bull. r. S. F. C. 1901, 31, 1901. 

 EiiclicljjDjtiis cimhrins Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. ^^. Nat. Mus. Ill, 



2560. 1898; IV, pi. CCCLXVII, fig. 907, 1900. 



I'ody i<lender. tapering, its depth nearly one sixth of the total 

 without caudal; caudal peduncle narrow, one fourth length of 

 head, which is contained fiA'e and one half times in total without 

 caudal; snout moderate, blunt, rounded, not depressed, 'a little 

 shorter than the eye, which is one fourth as long as the head; 

 inlcidrbital space narrow, one sixth length of head; teeth villi- 

 I'oiiii. small and unequal in upper jaw, with about eight enlarged 

 in li-ont. long, slender, and equal in lower jaw, a few somewhat 

 enlarged in front; maxillary reaching beyond posterior border 

 ol yc; a bailicl at each nustiil, one on tip of snout and one on 

 eiiin; laieial line wiili about 35 enlarged pores along its entire 

 lengiii; lirst (free) ray of dorsal nearly as long as the head; 

 vential one iiall as long as head; pectoral equal to head without 

 snout; caiMhiJ narrow, rounded behind, two thirds as long as 



ll.Md. 



Color, lij-lit rulons (.r salmon ivd; first dorsal ray and pos- 

 terii- rnd .d" doisal and anal abruptly black; lower half of caudal 



