Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2715 



men, 2 inches long, dredged at Albatross Station 2805, southwest of Pan- 

 ama. From this specimen, the above description is taken. Comparing 

 this with a larger specimen taken at Tokio by Prof. K. Otaki, we find no 

 differences likely to prove permanent, (seta, bristle; gero, I bear.) 



Lophius setigerus, VAHL,* Skrivt. Naturh., IV, 214, tab. 3, figs. 5 and 6, 1797, China Sea; 



CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xn, 383, 1837 ; GUNTHER, Cat., in, 180, 1861. 

 Lophius viviparus, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 142, 1801, tab. 32, China Sea; after 



Vahl. 

 Lophiomus setigerus, GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 454. 



Family CCXXII. ANTENNARIID.E. 

 (THE FROG-FISHES.) 



Head and body more or less compressed. Mouth vertical or very 

 oblique, opening upward; lower jaw projecting; jaws with cardiform 

 teeth; premaxillaries protractile. Gill openings small, pore-like, in or 

 behind the lower axils of the pectorals. No pseudobranchia). Gills 2^ 

 or 3; skin naked, smooth, or prickly. Pectoral members forming an 

 elbow-like angle. Pseudobrachia long, with 3 actinosts. Ventral fins 

 present, jugular, near together. Spinous dorsal of 1 to 3 separated, 

 tentacle-like spines; soft dorsal long, larger than anal. Pyloric ca3ca 

 none. Genera about 5 ; species 50. Inhabitants of tropical seas, " living 

 on floating seaweed, and enabled, by filling the capacious stomach with 

 air, to sustain themselves on the surface of the water;" therefore widely 

 dispersed by currents in the sea. (Pediculati, pt., Gunther, Cat., in, 182 

 to 200, 1861.) 



a. Head compressed ; a rostral spine or tentacte, followed by 2 larger spines ; palatine 



teeth developed; dorsal spines disconnected. 



6. Skin naked and smooth ; ventral fins elongate. PTEROPHRYNE, 1060. 



6&. Skin covered with prickles: ventral fins short. ANTENNARIUS, 1061. 



aa. Head cuboid; a single rostral spine or tentacle, received in a groove; soft dorsal 



low. CHAUNAX, 1062. 



1060. PTEROPHRYNE, Gill. 



(MOUSE-FlSH.) 



Pterophryne, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 90 (bougainvillei). 



Pterophrynoides, GILL, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 1878, 216 (histrio) ; name a substitute for 

 Pterophryne, if the latter be regarded as preoccupied by the earlier Pterophrynus. 



Body smooth or scarcely granular, short, somewhat compressed, with 

 tumid abdomen; mouth small, oblique; palate with teeth; wrist and pec- 

 toral fin slender; ventrals elongated; soft dorsal and anal vertically 



* Lophiomus setigerus, is thus described by Dr. Gunther: 



"Dorsal Ill-Ill, 8 or 9; A. 6 or 7. Teeth arranged in 2 alternate series in the upper 

 jaw, in 3 in the lower; 2 or 3 teeth on each side of the vomer; humeral spine terminating 

 in 3 points ; the mouth behind the hyoid bone purplish black, with white spots. Vertebrae 

 19, the anterior ones very short, the middle and posterior ones nearly equal in length. 

 Coasts of China and Japan." (Giinther.) 



