FISHES OF THE GULF OF MAINE 
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Hook-eared sculpin, Artediellus uncinatus (Reinhardt) 10 
This sculpin is now known to be generally distributed in the Gulf of Maine in 
depths greater than 20 to 30 fathoms. Thus, in addition to the Massachusetts Bay 
records of many years ago, we have recently taken it repeatedly near Mount Desert, 
off Cape Elizabeth, near Jeffrey’s Ledge, around Cashes Ledge, along the northern 
slopes of Georges Bank, in the southeastern part of the basin of the gulf, and at the 
entrance to the deep gully between Georges and Browns Banks, in depths ranging 
from 20 to 150 fathoms. Individual hauls have yielded up to six or eight specimens, 
both on hard and on soft bottom. 
After examining specimens from New England waters and comparing published 
drawings of European fish, we can find no major differences between the hook-eared 
sculpins of the eastern and western Atlantic. * 11 
Mailed sculpin, Triglops ommatistius Gilbert 
Tiffs sculpin is not as rare in the Gulf of Maine as was formerly supposed, for 
during the past few years we have trawled specimens near Mount Desert, in Mas- 
sachusetts Bay, off Cape Ann, off Cape Cod, and around the northern slope of Georges 
Bank, in depths of 20 to 140 fathoms, in various months from spring to autumn. 
The most southerly locality was about 10 miles east of Chatham. 
Longhorn sculpin, Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus (Mitchill) 
Numerous young specimens 1% to 2 inches long taken in September, and 3 to 3% 
inches in February, suggest that the longhorn sculpin is about 2 to 3 inches long at 1 
year of age, spawning as it does in late fall. 
Deep-sea sculpin, Cottunculus microps Collett 
A specimen, about 2 inches long, trawled by the Albatross II on the northern 
slope of Georges Bank, in a depth of 120 fathoms, on July 24, 1931, is the third 
record for the Gulf of Maine proper. 
Sea raven, Hemitripterus americanus (Gmelin) 
The fact that fish of both sexes with gonads only partially developed have recently 
been found on Nantucket Shoals late in June, added to previous captures of ripe 
females off southern New England in November and December shows this to be a 
late fall and early winter spawner. The sea raven is a prolific fish, for a female 20 
inches long that we caught off Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in April 1925, contained 
about 10,000 eggs. The fact that these were definitely of two sizes, the smaller 
averaging 1.5 mm in diameter, the larger about 3 mm, raises the interesting question 
whether individual sea ravens may spawn more than once during the year. 
The sizes of the few young sea ravens that have been taken in the Gulf of Maine 
suggest that they reach a length of 2 to 4 inches by the middle of the first summer, 
when 6 to 8 months old; and about 6 inches by the following April, at an age of 1% 
years. 
10 Given as Artediellus atlanlicus Jordan and Evermann by Bigelow and Welsh (1925, p. 314). 
11 Jordan, Evermann, and Clark (1930, p. 377) in the Check List of Fishes placed Artediellus attauticus Jordan and Evermann 
in the synonymy of A. uncinatus Reinhardt 
