42 ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Family IV,— SCORPjENID^. 



Sclerogenidw, pt. Owen. 



Branchiostegals five to seven: pseudobranchise present. Body oblong, com- 

 pressed, or subcylindrical. Eyes lateral. Cleft of mouth lateral. Some of the 

 bones of the head armed : suborbital ring articulated with the preopercle. 

 Teeth in villiform bands. A single dorsal fin in two distinct portions : the anal 

 usually similar to the soft dorsal : ventrals thoracic. Body scaled or scaleless. 

 Air-bladder generally present. Pyloric appendages, when present, few or in 

 moderate numbers. 



Geographical distribution, — Almost cosmopolitan. 



Genus I. — Sebastes, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 Pseudosebastes, Sanvage. 



Branchiostegals seven : psendobranchioe present. Head and body somewhat com- 

 pressed. No groove on the occiput, but usually a few small spines : preopercle armed. 

 Villiform teeth on the jaws, vomer and mostly on the palatine bones. Fins not 

 elongated : a single dorsal having the spinous more or less separated from the soft by 

 a notch : spines 12 to 14 : anal not elongated having 3 spines : no free rays to the 

 pectoral fin. Articulated fin-rays, excepting the lower ones of the pectoral, branched:. 

 No pectoral appendages. Scales present and of moderate or small size, extending as 

 far forwards as the orbit or even beyond : no shinny appendages. Air -bladder 

 generally present. Pyloric appendages few or in moderate numbers. 



Geographical distribution. — Marine fishes, extending from the Arctic regions 

 throughout most seas, but rare or absent from the tropical portions of the Atlantic 

 Ocean. 



Sebastes Norwegicus, Plate XVIII. 



Perca marina, pt. Linn. Syst. i, p. 483 ; Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Eel. 1) iii, p. 258, 

 pi. xlviii, (Ed. 2) iii, p. 349, pi. lix. 



Cyprinus pelagicus, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 320. 



Karfe, Olafsen, Island, i, p. 191, ii, p. 208, t. xxix. 



Perca Norwegica, Ascan. Icon, ii, t. xvi ; Mull. Zool. Dan. p. 46 ; Fabric. Faun. 

 Groenl. p. 167. 



Holocentrus JVorivegicus, Lacep. iv, p. 390. 



Holocentrus sanguineus, Faber, Fische Islands, p. 126. 



Serranus Norwegicus, Flem. Brit. An. p. 212 ; Johns. Fish, of Berwickshire, 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1833, vi, p. 15. 



Sebastes Norwegians, Cuv. and Val. iv, p. 327, pi. lxxxvii ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. 

 (Ed. 1) i, p. 73, c. fig., (Ed. 2) i, p. 87, (Ed. 3) ii, p. 72 ; Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 347; 

 Richards. Faun. Bor. Amer. Fish. p. 52 ; Storer, Rep. Mass. p. 26 ; Dekay, New 

 York Fauna, p. 60, pi. iv, f. 2 ; Kroyer, Damn. Fish. Nat. Tids. 1844-45, i, 

 p. 270; Thompson, N. H. Ireland, iv, p. 82; Giinther, Catal. ii, p. 95; Malm. 

 CEfv. Sven. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1865, p. 508 ; Collett, Norges Fiske, p. 19 ; Liitken, 

 Vid. Medd. 1876. p. 358. 



Sebastes marinus, White, Catal. Brit. Fish. p. 8. 



Scorpo?,na Norwegica, Richardson, Faun. Bor. Amer. p. 52 ; Jenyns, Brit. Vert. 

 p.. 347 ; Johns. Berw. Nat. Club. 1838, i, p. 170. 



? Sebastes vwiparus, Kroyer, Nat. Tyds. 1844-45, i, p. 275 ; Gaim. Voy. Scand. 

 Zool. Poiss. pi. vi; Giinther, Catal. ii, p. 96; Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 

 1868, i, p. 312. 



Sebastes septentrionalis, Gaim. Voy. Isl. and Groenl. Poiss. pi. ix. 



Bergylt, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, ii, p. 3, pi. lviii. 



B. vii, D. 1-I-, P. 20, V. 1/5, A. &, C. 13, L. 1. ca. 75, Coec. pyl. 9, Vert. 12/19. 



