The Blennies: Blenniide 720 
in the dorsal, and with teeth on the vomer and palatines, are 
very abundant in the northern seas, extending into deep waters 
farther south. Lycodes reticulatus is the most abundant of 
these fishes, which are valued chiefly by the Esquimaux and 
Fic. 637,—Eel-pout, Lycodes reticulatus Reinhardt. Banquereau. 
other Arctic races of people. Numerous related genera are 
recorded from deep-sea explorations, and’ several others occur 
about Tierra del Fuego. Gymunelis, small, naked species brightly 
colored, is represented by Gymnelis viridis in the Arctic and 
by Gymnelis pictus about Cape Horn. 
Fig. 638 —Lycenchelys verrilli (Goode & Bean). Chebucto, Nova Scotia. 
The family of Scytalinide contains a single species, Scytalina 
cerdale, a small snake-shaped fish which lives in wet gravel 
between tide-marks, on Waada Island near Cape Flattery in 
Washington, not having yet been found elsewhere. It dives 
Fig. 639 —Scytalina cerdale Jordan & Gilbert. Straits of Fuca. 
among the wet stones with great celerity, and can only be taken 
by active digging. 
To the family of Congrogadide belong several species of 
