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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Sea snail, Neoliparis atlanticus Jordan and Evermann 
The sea snail, previously unknown offshore, has recently been taken on Georges 
and on Browns Banks. Its range has recently been found to extend as far southward 
as the offing of Atlantic City, N. J. (Lat. 39°20'N.). Most of the specimens were 
found living in scallop shells ( Peden magellanicus), as is so often the case. 
Striped sea snail, Liparis liparis (Linnaeus) 
This sea snail was formerly known as far southward as New York but the Alba- 
tross II has taken it off Delaware Bay and the Grampus off Assateague, Va. (Welsh, 
1915, p. 2). 
Red-winged sea robin, Prionotus strigatus (Cuvier) 
A specimen was taken off Monhegan, Maine, in 40 fathoms, in an otter trawl 
November 19, 1933. This is the most northerly record for this straggler in the 
Gulf of Maine. 
Remora, Remora remora (Linnaeus) 
Recent Gulf of Maine records of this species include one found on the bottom of a 
lobster trap in Portland Harbor in 1931, probably brought in by a schooner from the 
West Indies; one found sucking to the gills of a blue shark ( Prionace glauca) that was 
caught on the northeast edge of Georges Bank, August 1, 1931; one in Cape Cod Bay 
in September 1934, and one off Provincetown in August 1935, taken by C. W. Lowes 
on blue sharks; also two specimens, 6 and 17 inches long, respectively, taken on 
August 3, 1932, 220 miles east-southeast of Cape Ann. Previously it had been 
recorded only once from the Gulf of Maine. 
Rock eel, Pholis gunnellus (Linnaeus) 
Recent records show that the rock eel occurs in considerable numbers ou the offshore 
banks in the Gulf of Maine down to at least 40 fathoms and occasionally even to 100 
fathoms (Schroeder, 1933, p. 5) as well as inshore. So many have been found in the 
stomachs of cod and pollock caught on Nantucket Shoals, Georges Bank, Browns 
Bank, Cashes Ledge, etc., that it must be an important food of these two species. 
The range of the rock eel recently has been found to extend south to the latitude 
of Delaware Bay, where in February 1930 Albatross II trawled two specimens in 23 
and 38 fathoms, respectively. 
Snake blenny, Lumpenus lamp etraejor mis (Walbaum) 
Recent captures, by Albatross II, of adult snake blennies (one specimen each) 
off Mount Desert, off Boone Island, and on Stellwagen Bank, in depths ranging from 
28 to 88 fathoms, added to earlier records from Massachusetts Bay and from the Bay 
of Fundy region, show that this species is generally distributed over the gulf, as records 
of its larvae had suggested. So slender and active is this fish that it can easily escape 
through the meshes of any of the nets used by commercial fishermen, hence it is seldom 
reported. 
Color notes taken from a 12-inch specimen are as follows: The body had brown 
markings on a whitish ground, the head being pale brown. The dorsal fin was 
marked obliquely with 18 pale bars, the caudal transversely with 8. The anal rays 
were pale brown against a colorless membrane, the ventrals white, while the pectorals 
were tinged with brown. 
