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Gymnacanthiis tricuspis Reinhardt. 



Tasiusak. In the harbour in quite shallow water. 1901 — 

 1902. 13 specim. 



Angmagsalik. At the ice-foot. lfm. 31. 5. 1899. 3 specim. 



Ângmagsalik. July 1899. 2 specim. 



Angmagsalik. 10—0 fms. 16—16. 9. 1900. Eel-seine. 

 13 specim. 



Tiningnekelak. 5—10 fms. 18.9.1901. 7 specim. 



Hekla Havn. About 6 fms. Aug. 1891. Line. 2 specim. 



Кар Stewart. 6—3 fms. 21.8.1900. Eel-seine. 13 specim. 



Hurry Inlet. 7 — fms. 7—8.8.1900. Eel-seine. 65 specim. 



Forsblads Fjord, the mouth. 14—3 fms. 28.8. 1900. Eel- 

 seine. 5 specim. 



Кар Broer Ruys. Very shallow water near the beach. 

 20. 7. 1891. 1 specim. 



Sabine Ö. 6—3 fms. 12. 7. 1900. Dredge. 1 specim. 



Lönnberg (I.e. p. 13) mentions it amongst the fishes 

 which the Kolthoff- expedition took 1900, by the North- 

 eastern Greenland. 



The females are as usual more numerously represented than 

 the males, though not very strikingly so, thus out of the 65 

 specimens from Hurry Inlet 31 are females, 24 males. The 

 largest female measures 217 mm., the largest male 186 mm. 



A young one of this fish is mentioned p. 238 — 39 and 

 illustrated fig. 6, pi. XI. 



Note. The here mentioned species is generally designated Gymnacan- 

 thiis (Phobetor) ventralis Cuv. Val.; but that the last named is identical 

 with Gymnacanthus pistiUiger Pallas, is suggested both by text and figure 

 of Cuvier-Valenciennes (Hist. Nat. Poiss. IV, 1829, p. 194; PI. 79, Fig.l) 

 as well as by its habitat (Kamtschatka); therefore Reinhardt's designa- 

 tion G. tricuspis must have the preference. The honour of having restored 

 G. pistiUiger Pall, as an independent species after Lütken had tried to 

 prove that it Avas founded on a mistake, is due to F. A. Smitt (Skandinaviens 

 Fiskar I, 1892, p. 161). 



