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jaw pi-ojectinjjj; both jaws with yery strong, unequal, cardiform 

 teeth, some of the teeth caninelike, most of them depressible; 

 A'omer and palatines usually with strong teeth; gill openings 

 romparativelj large, in the low-er axil of the pectorals; pseudo- 

 branchiae present; no gill rakers; gills three; skin mostly 

 smooth, naked, with many dermal flaps about the head; spinous 

 dorsal of iliree isolated, tentaclelike spines on the head, and 

 three smaller ones behind, w^hich form a continuous fin; second 

 dorsal moderate, similar to the anal; pectoral members scarcely 

 geniculated, each with two actinosts and with elongate pseudo- 

 brachia; ventrals jugular, I, 5, widely separated,, large, much 

 enlarged in the young. Young with the head spinous. Pyloric 

 caeca present. Vertebrae numerous, about 30 in number, 

 laving (n sea bottoms, at moderate depths; remarkable for 

 great voracity. 



369 Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 



Angler: Croosefish; Bellows Fish 



Ijfiphiii.s pmatorius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. X, I, 236, 1758; Mitchill, 

 Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 465, 1815; Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus. Ill, 179, 1861; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 2, 1879; Jor- 

 dan & GII.I5EET, Bull. 16. U. S. Nat. Mus. 844, 1883; Bean. Bull. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 373, 1897; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 109, 

 ISOS; .Jordan & Evermann. Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2713, 1898; 

 IV. pi. CCrLXXXVIII. fi- 952 (skeleton), 1900; Sherwood & 

 Ldwards, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1901, 31, 1901. 



Loftlii,,.^ inscator Mitciiill. lU'p. Fish. N. Y. 28. 1814, Long Island. 



L(>l)hiiis (iimricuiiiis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XII, 380, 

 1837; Di.: Kay, N. Y. Fauna. Fishes. 162. pi. 28, fig. 87, 1842; St'orer. 

 Hist. Fish. Mass. lUl, pi. XVIIl. fig. 2, 1867. 



I'."dy depressed, tapering, scarcely longer than head; humeral 

 spine Willi points, of which the posterior is the longest; head sur- 



'"'" '' ^^'"' =' f'i".i^^'" <'f barbels; top of head in young with 



iii^'ii.v strung spines; anterior dorsal spine elongate, fleshy at tip. 



' I I I. ill HI; A. 9. 



I'-K'wnish. nintil,.,!. i.|w white; mouth from behind the hyoid 

 '""" i"""a.ulah.: p.-.tural^ and raudal black at tip; peritoneum 

 "'- ^">lh Aihu.ti,.. on boll, roasts; generally common, from 

 N-'ll. Crolina nnrll.ward. A fish of singular ugliness of 

 appcaianrc. 



