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The number — 36 species altogether — seems small, yet 

 it is not quite inconsiderable when we remember the severe 

 climate of the sea. Moreover we may expect the list to be in- 

 creased in the course of time. Perhaps not very many «new» 

 species will be added from the north of East-Greenland, as this 

 part of the coast has been visited by several well equipped 

 expeditions, especially of late years. On the other hand a 

 closer examination is still needed with regard to the southern 

 part of the coast from Кар Farewell to the Arctic circle, as 

 only a small part of the latter viz. the neighbourhood of Ang- 

 magsalik has been explored, and then only more or less casu- 

 ally, and just here we may as I shall soon explain still expect 

 to make interesting discoveries. 



A few universal remarks about the Fish-Fauna of East- 

 Greenland will not be deemed out of place as an introduction 

 to the systematical list. 



As will be percieved the deep-sea fishes properly so-called 

 are not mentioned in the list (perhaps with a single exception: 

 Aphanopus minor Coll. compare p. 226) ; very little is indeed 

 as yet known of the abyssal fish-fauna off East-Greenland. I 

 have had the opportunity of seeing at the »Riks-Museum» of 

 Stockholm the ichthyological result of a trawling done by the 

 Kolthoff- expedition in 1900, between Jan Mayen and Green- 

 land (72° 42' lat. N. 14° 49' long. W.) at a depth of 2000 metres: 

 Lycodes frigidus Coll., Paraliparis bathybii Coll. and Rhodich- 

 thys regina Coll. All three species are characteristic of the 

 deep icy Polar sea, and are not known elsewhere ^). In Den- 

 mark Strait between Iceland and Greenland some trawling was 

 done by the Danish Ingolf-expedition 1895 — 96, and here from 



M 1 have proved in my "Ichthyologiske Studier» (p. 207) (Vidensk. Medd. 

 Naturhist. Foren. Kbhvn. 1901) that the Lycodes from the deep Atlantic 

 ofT the East-coast of North America, which American ichthyologists have 

 identified with the Lycodes frigidus Coil, of the Polar sea, is a diffe- 

 rent species which I have designated L. atlanticus. 



