LINEATED SUCKER. 3g5 



f)USj and mucous like a snail: body subtransparent ; 

 brownish above, with darker stripes, beneath white, 

 with a cast of yellow on the head and sides : head 

 large, thick, and rounded: eyes small: fms brown: 

 tail short and rounded : instrument of adhesion 

 round, of a blueish colour, and marked with twelve 

 radiate spots. Native of the Northern seas, as far 

 as Kamtschatka : occasionally observed about the 

 British coasts : sometimes ascends rivers. 



Far. ? 



LINEATED SUCI^ER. 



Cyclopterus Lineatus. C. suhferrngineus, lineis longitudinalibus 



alhidis undulatus. 

 JSubferruginous Sucker, undulated with longitudinal whitish 



lines. 



Cyclopterus lineatus. C. corpore nuda, pinnis dorsali et anali 

 sensim in caudalem excurrentibus. Lin. Gmel. Lepechin. nov. 

 comm. Petrop. 18./?. 522. 



Greatly resembles the preceding fish, which 

 it is perhaps a variety: colour chesnut, with strait 

 and undulated whitish longitudinal bands : body 

 very thick on the foreparts, and tapering behind : 

 head depressed : back gibbous : dorsal fin and anal 

 fin marked by small, pale-green bands : pectoral 

 fins large, and lunate : tail small : orb of adhesion 

 thick and fleshy, protuberant at the edge, and 

 beset with reddish papilke. Native of the White 

 Sea. 



