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The largest of the specimens in question is 155 mm. long M. 



E. Lönnberg mentions (1. с p. 13) L.fabricii amongst the 

 fishes which were caught by the Kolthoff-expedition 1900, at 

 the North-eastern Greenland. I suppose it is also this species 

 which was caught by the Germania-expedition 1869, at Jackson-, 

 Sabine- and Shannon Ö, and which is mentioned by Peters 

 (I.e. p. 171) under the name vLiparis gelatinosus Pallas». 



About ten years ago Professor F. A. S mitt united into one 

 species the hitherto as two species considered L. Uneatus Lep. 

 and L. fabricii Kr., and designated them respectively L. [Cydo- 

 gaster) liparis L. forma microps. and L. (C.) liparis L. forma 

 megalops^). Dr. E. Lönnberg and Prof. N. Knipowitsch 

 who know the arctic fishes so very well have later on adopted 

 this view as they enter L. fabricii as L. (C.) liparis L. subsp. 

 fabricii'^) or L. (C.) liparis L. y dx. fabricii Kr. ^). And lately 

 an undisputed authority with regard to the northern Ichthyology, 

 Prof. R. Collett, concurs in Smitt's view^). 



When 1 have nevertheless retained L. liparis L. (== L. li- 

 neatus Lep. = L. tunicata Reinh.) and L. fabricii Kr. in the 

 present list as separate species, the reason is that during the 

 examination of a great number of specimens I have in no case 



') Besides the here mentioned specimens we have moreover a number of 

 young ones, which 1, though with some doubt, classify as belonging to 

 Liparis fabricii, from the following localities in East-Greenland: Ang- 

 magsalik, 10—0 fms., 16.9.1900. (3 specim., length 42— 43.5 mm.); Кар 

 Dan, 10—15 fms., 4. 6. 1899 (1 specim., length ca. 32.5mm.); Turner 

 Sund, 22. 7. 1900 (8 specim., 6 — 17 mm. long, in Plankton, rapid current). 



2) F. A. Smitt: Skandinaviens Fiskar, 2 Uppl., I.D., 1892, p. 287. 



^) Lönnberg: Fishes from Spitzbergen and King Charles Land; Bih. K. 

 Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Bd. 24, Afd. IV, No. 9, 1899, p. 15. 



■*) Knipowitsch: Zool. Ergebn. d. Russischen Exped. nach Spitzbergen, 

 Fische; Ann. Musée Zool. de I'Acad. Imp. d. sciences St. Pétersbourg, 

 T. VI, 1901, p. 16. 



■') Collett: Meddelelser om Norges Fiske i Aarene 1884—1901; Ghria. 

 Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. No. 1, 1902, p. 83. 



