110 CHECK LIST OF FISHES OF THE DOMINION. 



516. Caularchus maeandricus Girard. 



Suck-fish: Cling-fish. 



Marine: in rocky pools. 



British Columbia southward to Point Concepcion. 



517. Heterostichus rostratus Girard. 

 Kelpfish. 



Marine: abundant among kelp. 



Reputed range coast of California: included here on the strength of a female mounted 



specimen* obtained in British Columbia by Mr. S. F. Denton, taxidermist, which seems 



to answer to this species. 



518. Bryostemma polyactocephalum Pallas. 

 Tufted Blenny. 



Marine. 



British Columbia and Puget Sound, ranging northward to Bering Sea, hence westward to 



Kamchatka, and, if the same, to the island of Hokkaido, Japan (Herzenstein, 1890, 



as Chirolophus japonicus). 



519. Bryostemma nugator Jordan and Williams. 

 Marine. 



British Columbia and Puget Sound. 



520. Apodichthys flavidus Girard. 

 Yellow Blenny. 



Marine: "usually found below low-tide mark." 



British Columbia and Puget Sound southward to Santa Barbara Islands. 



521. Xererpes fucorum Jordan and Gilbert. 



Marine: in rocky pools, and amongst sea weeds often out of the water. 

 British Columbia and Puget Sound southward to coast of California. 



522. Pholis gunnellus Linmeus. 

 Gunnel: Butterfish. 



Marine: abounding on rocky shores among sea-weeds. 



Both sides of north Atlantic: ranging on the American side from Labrador, and embracing 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gaspe Bay, doubtless Newfoundland, and Maritime Provinces, 

 southward to Wood's Hole; and on the European side from the coast of Norway to 

 France: occurs in Great Britain from the southern counties of England, including 

 Cornwall, along the east coast, including Berwick Bay and the Frith of Forth, north- 

 ward to the Orkney and Shetland Islands. 



♦Certain characters of this specimen are as follows: — Length with mouth protracted and open 18 inches: a 

 single row of conical teeth with a series of villiform teeth behind them in each jaw: lateral line straight from top 

 of operculum to beyond pectoral fin, thence straight to caudal fin: caudal fin furcate and separated from the dorsal 

 and anal fins: dorsal fin terminating slightly in front of terminus of anal fin: first dorsal spine separated from the 

 second — a rudimentary membrane near their base alone connecting them : soft portion of dorsal short and somewhat 

 higher than spinous portion : a translucent spot behind the third spine, and numerous other spines in both dorsal 

 and anal fins each with a translucent spot behind it : pectoral fin placed high, but distance from dorsal outline greater 

 than from ventral outline: colour brownish and mottled with whitish markings. 



