Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1897 



Alaska;* numerous specimens taken both north and south of the Aleutian 

 Islands and in Bristol Bay, in 38 to 59 fathoms. (Gilbert.) (borealis, 

 northern. ) 



Icelinus borealis, GILBERT, Kept. U. S. Fish. Comm. 1893 (1896), 415, pi. 25, Aleutian Islands 

 and Bristol Bay, at Albatross Stations 3213, 3214, and others, in n to 121 fathoms. 



2278. 1( KUM S <Jl AIHUSKHIATIS (Lockington). 



Head:U; d'pth54-. D.VIII,13; A.12; V. I, 3. Body slender, little com- 

 pressed, tapering from the shoulders to the slender tail; mouth moderate, 

 the maxillary reaching about to middle of pupil; a pair of ridges on the 

 occiput, each ending in a spine, the space between them concave; inter- 

 ocular space very narrow, grooved; upper preopercular spine very long, 

 armed with about 5 hooks, all but 1 directed upward; below this 3 simple 

 spines; head naked or very nearly so, with conspicuous mucous pores 

 above and a few minute cirri; dorsal iins separated; pectorals broad, 

 about reaching anal; ventrals very small; lateral line with a series of 

 spinous plates; above it along the back a double series of spiiious plates 

 placed at an angle, the upper plates with the free edge downward and 

 backward, the lower plates with the free edge upward and backward, 

 this band composed of a single series before and behind, and not extend- 

 ing around the dorsal in front; skin otherwise perfectly smooth. Pale 

 olivaceous, somewhat mottled; lateral line with dark blotches; branchi- 

 ostegal region black in the males; a black bar at base of caudal; a black 

 spot at front of spinous dorsal, and 1 at tip of the last spine; pectorals 

 with a dark spot at base; other fins olivaceous, little variegated. Length 

 3 inches. Coast of California, in water of moderate depth; locally very 

 abundant, great numbers being sometimes taken in the sweep nets be- 

 tween Point Reyes and the Golden Gate, (quadriseriatus, four-rowed.) 



Artcdius quadriseriatus, LOCKINGTON, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 330, off San Francisco. 



(Type, No. 23503. Coll. Lockingtou.) 



Icelus quadriieriatus, JORDAN <fc GILBERT, Synopsis, 691, 1883. 

 Icelinus quadriseriatus, GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 83 ; JORDAN, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 



1896, 225, pi. 29. 



2279. K F.LIMS STRABO, Starks. 



Head 2| in body; depth 4. D. IX-15; A. 13; eye 4 in head; maxillary 

 2 ; snout 4. Body robust at shoulders, tapering into a rather slender 

 caudal peduncle ; upper profile of head evenly curved from snout to dorsal, 

 the snout rather steep; mouth horizontal and placed at the extreme lower 

 aspect of head; upper jaw projecting slightly beyond the lower; narrow 

 bands of villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; maxillary reach- 

 ing about to posterior margin of eye. Nasal spines prominent; upper 

 spine of preopercle longer than eye, extending upward and backward, and 

 bearing 011 its inner edge 1 or 2 apitler-like processes ; below it on edge of 



* "It is impossible to compare this or any other described species of Icelinus with Ice- 

 linus australis, Eigenmann, described from partially digested specimens. From Eigen- 

 mann's description of the preopercular spine, it is even doubtful whether that species is 

 a member of the genus Icelinus." (Gilbert.) 



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