. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 298 BULLETIN OF THE BUEEAU OF FISHERIES. Color in alcohol, yellowish brown: body and head blotched and mottled with small whitish spots and darkish irregular blotches; dorsal, anal, and caudal fins dark, blotched with white; pectoral similar, the lower rays whitish at tip, the interradial membranes darker. This species is related to /. borealis, from which it differs chiefly in the larger eye, the shorter snout, the weaker nasal spines, the shorter preopercular spines, and the less compl
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 298 BULLETIN OF THE BUEEAU OF FISHERIES. Color in alcohol, yellowish brown: body and head blotched and mottled with small whitish spots and darkish irregular blotches; dorsal, anal, and caudal fins dark, blotched with white; pectoral similar, the lower rays whitish at tip, the interradial membranes darker. This species is related to /. borealis, from which it differs chiefly in the larger eye, the shorter snout, the weaker nasal spines, the shorter preopercular spines, and the less complete series of scales along the base of the dorsal. Type, no. 57822 I". S. National Museum (held no. 99), a specimen 4 inches long from Albatross station 4228 in 41 to L34 fathoms, off Loring, Alaska. July 7, ('..types: No. 5229, Bureau of Fisheries; no. 20010 Museum Stanford University; no. 57825, II. S. National Museum, and no. 6117, Field Museum, all from the same place; and no. 33003, Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, from Behm (.'anal, near Loring, July 8, 1903. This interesting species is named for Mr. James S. Burcham, a young naturalist of great promise, who lost his life at Lake McDonald, November 12, 1905, while in the employ of the Bureau of Fisheries. 105. Icelinus borealis Gilbert. This species is common and widely distributed. We have examined specimens from the following localities: Albatross stations no. 4205, 4209, 4212, 4213, 4217, and 4218 (all in Admiralty Inlet), 4276 (Alitak Bay), 4285 (Chignik Bay), 2428 (Behm Canal), 3597 (off coast of Washington), Seattle, and Loring. It had been previously recorded by Gilbert (1895) from various Albatross stations north and. Fig. 49.—Icelinus borealis Gilbert. south of the Aleutian Islands and in Bristol Bay. The known range is, therefore, from Bristol Bay and the Aleutian Islands to Puget Sound. Our specimens are to inches long. The length ( feet) given in Fishes of North and Middle Amer
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