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Corynolophus Reinhardti. 



1878— Corynolophus Reinhardti, LiitJcen, K. Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., Nat. og Math. 

 Afh., 5. rsekke, b. 5, p. 321, etc. 



Corynolophus with the height of the body equal to three-fourths of the 

 total length, and the frontal ray furnished with 8 tentacles. 



Habitat. — Sea off Greenland (described from a specimen 14 inches 

 long). 



LOPHIIDJS. 

 Pediculates with pseudobranchiae, i. e. s 



Pediculates with, the body differentiated into a wide depressed head and 

 contracted conical trunk; the mouth opening forwards and upwards; the 

 branchial apertures iu the inferior axils of the pectoral members ; pseudo- 

 branchiae; the spinous dorsal represented by a group of independent 

 cephalic spines (3) and a small postcephalic finlet (with 3 spines); the 

 pectoral members scarcely geniculated, but with elougated pseudobra- 

 chia, and with three actinosts; and with ventrals well developed. 



LOPHIUS.* 



Lophiids with vomerine teeth. 



Lophius piscatorius. 



Bellows-fish. 



1758 — Lophius piscatorius, Linnceus, Syst. Nat., 10 ed., t. 1, p. 236 (12 ed., t. 1. p. 402; 



Gml. ed., t. 1, p. 1479). 

 1815 — Lophius foliatus, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., v. 1, p. 467. 

 1815 — Lophius piscator, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., v. 1, p. 467. 

 1837 — Lophius piscatorius, Cuv. $ Val^ Hist. Nat. des Poissons, t. 12, p. 344, pi. 362. 

 1837 — Lophius americanus, Cuv. tj- Vol., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, t. 12, p. 381. 

 1839— Lophius piscatorius, Storer, Boston Jouru. Nat. Hist., v. 2, p. 3c0 ; Rep. Ich. aud 



Herp. Mass., pp. 71, 404. 

 1842— Lophius americanus, DeKay, Zoology of New York, Fishes, p. 162, pi. 28, f. 87. 

 1853— Lophius americanus, Storer, Mem. Am. Acad. Arts and Sc., n. s., v. 5, p. 267 ; Hist. 



Fishes Mass., p. 101, pi. 18, f. 2. 

 1861 — Lophius piscatorius, Giinther, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., v. 3, p. 179. 

 1861 — Lophius americanus, Giinther, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., v. 3, p. 181 (d. s.). 

 1872 — Lophius piscatorius, Lyman, 6th Ann. Rep., Inl. Fish., p. 44 (Waquoit Weir). 



Lophius with a tridentate humeral spine, 11-12 rays in the dorsal fin, 

 and the mouth behind the hyoid bone immaculate. 

 Habitat. — Coast waters from Newfoundland to North Carolina. 



MALTHEIIDiE. 



Pediculates with the branchial apertures in the superior axils of the 

 pectorals, i. e., 



Pediculates with a depressed body; the mouth sub terminal or inferior, 

 and the lower jaw generally received within the upper; the branchial 

 apertures in the superior axils of the pectoral fins ; no pseudobranchiae ; 



* Lophius, the ancient Latin name of the type of the genu--. 



