2134 Bulletin ^.7, United States National Museum. 



Liparis gelatinosus, REINHARDT, Overaigt, etc., 1844, 77 ; not of PALLAS. 

 Liparis (Careproctus) reinhardi, Kroyer, Naturh. Tidskr., I, 252, 1862, Greenland. 

 Careproctus reinhardi, COLLETT, Norske Nord-Havs Exped., 57, 1880; JORDAN & GILBERT, 

 Synopsis, 957, 1883; GARMAN, Discoboli, 78, 1892. 



2465. CAREPROCTUS RA1YULA (Goode & Bean). 



Head 4 ; depth 6. D. 48^ ; A. 48^ ; pectoral 15 -|- 12 or 13. Body thick, 

 subcylindrical anteriorly, rapidly tapering to the tail ; skin thick, lax. 

 Head swollen at the nape; width little greater than depth, twice that of 

 disk ; length of disk 2 interorhital width. Snout broad, about as long 

 as head; mouth cleft not reaching a vertical from orbit; upper jaw the 

 longer; eye lateral, not interfering with upper profile, about of head; 

 nostril near the eye ; from snout to first dorsal ray -J-, and from snout to 

 first anal ray about f of length of body ; origin of anal below eighth ray 

 of dorsal ; disk slightly longer than its distance from the snout, or than 

 its width. Color uniform, whitish. Off Halifax Harbor, in 52 fathoms. 

 (Goode and Bean.) Garman refers this species to the synonymy of Care- 

 proctus reinhardi, which may be correct, (ranula, tadpole, diminutive of 

 rana, frog.) 



Liparis ranula, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 46, Halifax ; JORDAN & GIL- 

 BERT, Synopsis, 742, 1883. 



2466. CAREPROCTUS OSTENTUM, Gilbert. 



The snout is longer and more pointed than in Careproctus phasma or Care- 

 proctus spectrum, its width little greater than its length, 2J in head. Mouth 

 with very distinct lateral cleft, its width less than its length. Maxillary 

 reaching a vertical line crossing orbit behind pupil, l-^ r in head; teeth 

 minute, in narrow bands, indistinctly tricuspid ; eye equaling length of 

 snout, 1| in total width of interorbital area. The true bony interorbital 

 width is much narrower than this. In the specimen examined the epi- 

 dermis of the head is largely lost, and the width of the gill slip can not 

 be determined. A short nostril tube. Fins as in C. spectrum and C. 

 phasma. Skin loose, thinner than in C. phasma. Color white or slightly 

 brownish, minutely pnnctulate with black. Differing from C. spectrumin 

 the minute size of the Slicking disk, which is reduced to a mere rudiment 

 entirely concealed by the anterior (lower) lobes of the pectoral fins, about 

 one millimeter in diameter in a specimen 78 mm. long. Bering Sea, north 

 of Unalaska Island, in deep water, (ostentum, a spectre.) 



Careproctus ostentum, GILBERT, Rept.-TJ. S. Fish Coram. 1893 (1896), 444, Bering Sea, north 

 of Unalaska Island, at Albatross Stations 3324 and 3331, in 109 and 350 fathoms. 

 (Type, No. 48619.) 



2467. CAREPROCTUS GELATINOSUS (Pallas). 



D. more than 50; A. about 45; C. 6; ca^ca 48; vertebrae 64. Verti- 

 cal fins contiguous. Ventral disk small, supported by a bilamellated 

 cartilage, which descends from the throat. Body oblong, compressed, 

 thicker toward the head and thinner toward the tail, semitransparent, 



