96 CHECK LIST OF FISHES OF THE DOMINION. 



399. Remora remora Linnaeus. 

 Remora: Sucking-fish. 



Marine: attaching itself to sharks, vessels, or other objects. 



Recorded from Atlantic coast of Canada (Whiteaves, 1886, as Remora squalipeta-speci- 

 men in Canadian Fisheries Museum): from Sechart, British Columbia (specimen in 

 Provincial Museum, Victoria) : from the British Islands* (Yarrell, 1859, as Echeneis 

 remora) : ordinarily ranges in warm seas — in North America extending northward to 

 the coasts of the States of New York and California: abounds in the West Indies. 



* 



400. Sebastes marinus Linnaeus. (Plate XII, figures 136 and 137). 

 Snapper: Rose-fish. 



Marine. 



Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean: on the American side ranging from Greenland and Lab- 

 rador southward to off the coast of New Jersey, and embracing the Maritime Provinces 

 and Newfoundland: coasts of Europe northward to Iceland and Spitzbergen and 

 southward to the British Channel. 



401. Sebastolobus alascanus Bean. 

 Bathybial. 



British Columbia: coast of California to Alaska and Bering Sea. 



402. Sebastolobus altivelis Gilbert. 

 Bathybial. 



British Columbia: Alaskan Peninsula, and off the coast of California. 



403. Sebastbdes paucispinis Ayres. (Plate XIII, figure 162). 

 Jack-fish: Bocaccio. 



Marine. 



3 specimens, obtained by Mr. S. F. Denton, Taxidermist, from British Columbia, in the 

 Canadian Fisheries Museum: a specimen listed in 1898 by Mr. John Fannin, at that 

 time Curator of the Provincial Museum, Victoria, as belonging to the collection of that 

 museum; but without locality:f ordinarily ranges on coast of California. 



404. Sebastodes melanops Girard. (Plate XIV, figures 177 and 178). 

 Black Sea Bass. 



Marine. 



Vancouver Island: ranges from Monterey to Kadiak Island, Alaska. 



405. Sebastodes mystinus Jordan and Gilbert. (Plate XIV, figures 175 and 176). 

 Black Rock-fish: Priest-fish. 



Marine: in rather shallow water. 

 Vancouver Island to coast of California. 



*"Though natives of wanner latitudes, it is not surprising that they should occasionally come into precincts 

 of the channel sticking on the bottoms of ships or transported by cosmopolite sharks." Yarrell. 



■(■Mr. Kermode, the present Curator, considers that Mr. Fannin was in error in listing this species, as no specimen 

 can be found in the museum. 



