442 Pareioplite, or Mailed-cheek Fishes 
Of the multitude of genera: of Cottide we notice a few of 
the most prominent. Jordania zonope, a pretty little fish of 
Puget Sound, is the most primitive in its characters, being closely 
allied to the Hexagrammide. 
Scorpenichthys marmoratus, the great sculpin, or cabezon, of 
California reaches a length of 2} feet. It has the ventral rays 
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Fic. 381.—Jordania zonope Starks. Puget Sound. 
1, 5, although almost in all the other sculpins the rays are 
reduced to 1, 3 or 1, 4.. The flesh has the livid blue color seen 
in the cultus cod Ophiodon elongatus. 
To Icelinus, Artedius, Hemilepidotus, Astrolytes, and related 
genera belong many species with the body partly scaled. These 
Ita. 382.—1strolytes notospilotus (Girard). Puget Sound. 
are characteristic of the North Pacific, in which they drop to 
a considerable depth. JIcelus, Triglops, and Artediellus are 
found also in the North Atlantic, the Arctic fauna of which is 
derived almost entirely from Pacific sources. The genus Hemi- 
lepidotus contains coarse species, with bands of scales. The 
“Trish lord,” Hemilepidotus jordani, a familiar and fantastic 
