PRELIMINARY LIST OF MARINE FISHES OF QUEBEC XXXVI Labridae

97. TAUTOGOLABRUS A DSPERSUS (Walbaum) 1892 — cunner Common in Chaleur Bay. One specimen was taken at Tête à la Baleine, North Shore, on July 12th, 1956.

XX XVII Ammodytidae.

Exact distribution of two species not yet clear.

98. AMMODYTES DUBIUS Reinhardt 1838 — northern sand lance Common, some commercial value as bait.

99. AMMODYTES AMERICANUS DeKay 1842.-- American sand lance

(probably A. hexapterus)

Common, some commercial value as bait.

XXXVIII Pholidae.

100. n'OMS GtTNNELLUS (Linnaeus) 1758 — rock gunnel Common.

XXXIX Stichaeidae (incl. Lumpenidae).

101. ULUVARIA SUBBIFURCATA (Storer) 1839 --- radiated shanny Fairly common. Vachon and Tremblay (1938).

102. STICHAEUS PUNCTATUS (FabrICIUS) 1780 -- .Arctic shanny Rare. Definite records are lacking, Cox (1921) reported from Magdalen Islands.

103. EUMESOGRAMMUS PRAECISUS (KrOyer) 1837) —fourline sna-keblenny

Rare. One specimen, 170 mm., was taken in deep water off Trois Pistoles in 1935. Halkett (1913) questionably reported it from Anticosti.

104. LUMPENUS LAMPRETAEFORMIS AMERICANUS Vladykcrv 1935

— snake blenny

PRELIMINARY L1ST OF MARINE FISHES OF QUEBEC 71 Common. Bigelow and Schroeder (1935, p. 495) do not consider the Quebec subspiecies as sufficiently distinct form typi-cal L. lampretaeformis (Walbaum).

105. LEPTOCLINUS MACULATUS (Fries) 1837 — shanny Common.

XLVII Anarhichadidae.

106. ANARHICHAS MINOR Olafsen 1774 — spotted wolf-fish Rare. Recently taken by .1. M. Boulanger.

107. ANARHICHAS LUPUS LINNAEus 1758 — striped wolf-fish Rather common in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

XLVIII Zoarcidae.

Among species of this family those belonging to the genus Lycodes were studied in detail by Vladykov and Tremblay (1936).

Andriashev (1954, pp. 266-315) suggested some changes in the nomenclature for certain Quebec Lycodes, which are noted for the respective species.

108. GYMNELIS VIRIDIS (Fabricius) 1780 — unernack Rare.

109. MELANOSTIGMA GELATINOSUM Gunther 1881 —

Rare. Six specimens, 55-125 mm., caught in deep water off Trois Pistoles during 1935, were tentatively identified as M. gela-tinosum. The late Dr. .1. R. Norman of the British Museum of Natural History, who compared some of our specimens with typical M. gelatinosum from the Straits of Magellan, considered the Quebec material specifically distinct from the type specimen.

During the recent years, several specimens had been caught in Quebec waters (Leim and Day, 1959) and in the Atlantic Ocean.

Previous to making an exact identification of Quebec specimens we are planning to reexamine all available material. If eventually St. Lawrence specimens prove to be distinct from the typical M.

gelatinosum, then they should be called M. normani.

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110. MACROZOARCES AMERICANUS (Bloch and Schneider) 1801 — ocean pout

Common. Some information on the biology of this species was given by Clemens and Clemens (1921).

111. LYCODES VAIILII MACULATUS Vladykov and Tremblay 1936

— Vales eellpout

Common. (Leim and Day) 1959 reported a capture of more than 100 specimens off Fox River.

112. LYCODES VACIIONII Vladykov and Tremblay 1936 — Va-chon's eellpout

Rare. Adriashev (1954, pp. 301-302) considered it as L.

esmarki vachonii.

1 13. LYCODES ATRATUS Vladykov and Tremblay 1936 -- black ellpout

Rare.

114. LYCODES LAVAL.tEi Vladykov and Tremblay 1936 -- Laval's ellpout

Rare.

115. LYCODES RETICULATUS LAURENTIANUS Vladykov and Trem-blay 1936 — "fraie ellpout.

Rather common.

116. LYCODES TURNERI ATLANTICUS Vladykov and Tremblay 1936 — Polar ellpout.

Rather common. Adriashev (1954, p. 273) considered it as L. polaris (Sabine).

117. LYCODES AGNOSTUS (Jensen) 1902 —

Rather rare. Adriashev (1954, p. 272) considered it as L.

polaris (Sabine).

118. LYCODES SEMINUDUS Reinhardt 1838 — Rare.

119. 117. LYCODES ESMARKII Collett 1875 — Esmark's ellpout Common in Chaleur Bay. It is the largest among Lycodes, reaching up to 80 cm. in length.

PRELIMINARY LIST OF MARINE FISHES OF QUEBEC 73 120. LYCENCHELYS PAXILLUS (Goode and Bean) 1879 —

Rare.

XLIX Molidae.

121. MOLA MOLA (Linnaeus) 1758 — ocean sunfish

Rare. One specimen from Ile Verte was caught about 1935.

During recent years several specimens had been reported by Medcof (1947) and Dunbar (1950) from the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

L Lophiidae.

122. LOPIIIUS AMERICANUS Valenciennes 1837 — American goose-fish

Common. Berill (1929) pives reasons for separating the American and European forms.

LI Cera tiidae.

123. CERATIS HOLBiiLLI KrOyer 1844 — deep sea angler

Rare. Leim and Day (1959) reported a capture of a 24 cm.

specimen on July 1958 east of Anticosti Island.

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