Identifier: fishes00jord Title: Fishes Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Subjects: Fishes Publisher: New York, H. Holt and Company Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: Fig. 550.—-Jordania zonope Starks. Puget Sound. I, 5, although almost in all the other sculpins the rays are,reduced to i, 3 or 1,4. The flesh has the livid blue color seenin the cultus cod, Ophiodon elongatus. To Icelinns, Artediiis, Hemilepidotus, Astrolytes, and relatedgenera belong many species with the body partly scaled. These

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 551.—Astrolytes notospilotus (Girard). Puget Sound. are characteristic of the North Pacific, in which they drop toa considerable depth. Iceliis, Triglops, and Artedielliis arefound also in the North Atlantic, the Arctic fauna of which isderived almost entirely from Pacific sources. The genus Hemi-lepidotus contains coarse species, with bands of scales. TheIrish lord, Hemilepidotus jordani, a familiar and fantastic 654 Pareioplitaj, or Mailed-cheek Fishes inhabitant of Bering Sea, is much valued by the Aleuts as afood-fish, although the flesh is rather tough and without much

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