72 CHECK LIST OF FISHES OF THE DOMINION. 



236. Notacanthus phasganorus Goode. 

 Spiny Eel. 



Marine. 



Grand Banks, Newfoundland: known from one specimen which was taken from the stomach 

 of a sleeper shark. 



237. Macdonaldia rostrata Collett. 

 Spiny Eel. 



Bathybial. 



Off Newfoundland: stations 2216 and 2553 of the United States s.s. Albatross: has also 

 been obtained west of Iceland. 



238. Lampris luna Gmelin. 

 Op ah: Kingfish. 

 Pelagic. 



Recorded from Sable Island,* Nova Scotia: "off Madeira, occasionally taken off Newfound- 

 land, Maine, and Cuba, also at Monterey and other places in California" (Jordan and 

 Evermann): off coasts of Europe, and in the Mediterranean: British Islands, including 

 coasts of Ireland and the Orkney Islands (Yarrell, 1859). 



239. Eucalia inconstans Kirtland. 

 Brook Stickleback. 



Fluviatile: in small brooks especially. 



Ranges from Maritime Provinces to Alberta: in the United States from State of New York 



westward to Minnesota: doubtfully recorded from Sukkertoppen, Greenland (Cope, 



1865). 



240. Eucalia inconstans pygmaea Agassiz. 

 Dwarf Stickleback. 



Lacustrine. 



Lake Superior (Agassiz, 1850, as Gasterosteus pygmceus) 



241. Pygosteus pungitius Linnaeus. 

 Nine-spined Stickleback. 



Lacustrine, fluviatile, and in brackish water. 



Very widely distributed in Canada from the Atlantic probably to the Pacific, and to the 



Arctic Sea: Newfoundland and Labrador: in the United States south to Long Island, 



and in Alaska: northern parts of Europe. 



242. Pygosteus pungitius brachypoda Bean. 

 Arctic Stickleback. 



Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Arctic regions: "mountain streams and lakes about Baffin's Bay" (Jordan and Evermann). 



*"We have before us a drawing of a specimen of Lampris luna made at Sable Island by James Farquhar in 1856, 

 and sent with an accompanying letter to Dr. J. Bernard Gilpin, of Halifax." Jordan and Evermann. "A specimen 

 was taken at Sable Island some years ago, a rough sketch of which, with the colours well depicted, was made by 

 one of the men belonging to the establishment there, and given to Dr. Bernard Gilpin, in whose portfolio I saw it 

 and carefully examined it. Although the sketch was rude in the extreme, the peculiar form and brilliant colours 

 left no doubt as to the fish. The man had never seen one before." Jones. 



