274 CYCLOrTERlD.E. 



SUBBRACHIAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. CYCLOVTERIDM. 





;^y- 



THE UNCTUOUS SUCKER, 



OE, SEA-SNAIL. 



Liparis vulgaris, Sea Snail, Flem, Brit. An. p. 190, sp. 73. 

 ,, ,, CuviER, Regne An, t. ii. p. 346. 



,, nostras, Sea Snail, Willughby, App. p. 17, H. 6, fig. 1. 

 Cyclopterus liparis, Linnkus. Bloch, pt. iv. pi. 123, fig. 3. 



,, ,, Unctuous Sucker, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 179, pi. 24. 



„ „ „ Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 47. 



Generic Characters. — Body without scales, smooth, elongated, compressed 

 posteriorly ; a single dorsal fin rather lengthened ; ventral fins united to the 

 pectorals, and surrounding a single disk. 



The Unctuous Sucker, or Sea-Snail, so called from 

 the soft and slimy surface of its body, appears to be mucli 

 more common in the northern parts of the British Islands 

 than in the southern. Mr. Scoresby, and other observers, 

 have even found it as far north as Greenland ; and specimens 

 of it were taken in the trawl-net on the west coast of Davis's 

 Straights during the first Arctic voyage of Captain Sir Ed- 

 ward Parry ; yet it does not appear to be mentioned by Pro- 

 fessor Nilsson or Reinhardt in their accounts of the fishes of 

 the Scandinavian shores ; nor is it included by Linnseus in 

 his Fauna Sueeica. 



