GELATINOUS SUCKER. 3§3 



and seven lateral : gill-covers large and bony : ab- 

 domen ventricose : vent situated close to the tail, 

 which is compressed, flattish, and subattenuated : 

 fms soft and whitish, with thick, setaceous, carti- 

 laginous rays : dorsal fin somewhat anterior to the 

 anal: pectoral fins semicircular: tail rounded: sizQ 

 of the fish about thrice that of the Cottus grunniem : 

 colour reddish. Native of the American seas. 



GELATINOUS SUCKER. 



Cycloptems Gelatinosus. C. gekiHnosus, suhdiaphams, ivsem^ 



pinna dorsali analique violaceis. 

 Gelatinous, subtransparent, rose-coloured Sucker, with tioletr 



coloured dorsal and anal fin. 

 Cyclopterus gelatinosus. C. corpare nudo suhdiaphano gelatinosOj^ 



pinnis pecioralibus latissimis. Lin, Gmel, FalU spic. zool, 7* 



p, 19. 



Length about eighteen inches : body slender, 

 oblong, compressed : thicker towards the head, and 

 gradually tapering to the tail : colour whitish with 

 a rosy tinge: skin smooth 5 flesh very soft, inso- 

 much a« to tremble like jelly when touched: dorsal 

 and anal fin dark violet : pectoral fins flaccid and 

 rounded : native of the seas about the eastern parts 

 of Kamtschatka and the opposite American shores : 

 not eatable, being refused even by the Kamt- 

 schatkan dogs, which are fed during part of (he 

 ye^r with fi^h of various kinds. 



