Fishes . Fig. 562.—18-spined Sculpin, Myoxoccphalus oclodecimspinosus (Mitcliill).Beasley Point, N. J. America. Triglopsis thompsoni of the depths in our own GreatLakes seems to be a dwarfed and degenerate descendant ofOncocottus. The genus Zesticelus contains small soft-bodied sculpins fromthe depths of the North Pacific. Zesticelus profundorum was. Fig. 563 —Oncocottus quadricornis (L.). St. , Alaska. taken in 664 fathoms off Bogoslof Island and Zesticelus bathyhiusoff Japan. In this genus the body is very soft and the skeletonfeeble, the result of deep-sea Hfe. Another deep-water g

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Fishes . Fig. 562.—18-spined Sculpin, Myoxoccphalus oclodecimspinosus (Mitcliill).Beasley Point, N. J. America. Triglopsis thompsoni of the depths in our own GreatLakes seems to be a dwarfed and degenerate descendant ofOncocottus. The genus Zesticelus contains small soft-bodied sculpins fromthe depths of the North Pacific. Zesticelus profundorum was. Fig. 563 —Oncocottus quadricornis (L.). St. , Alaska. taken in 664 fathoms off Bogoslof Island and Zesticelus bathyhiusoff Japan. In this genus the body is very soft and the skeletonfeeble, the result of deep-sea Hfe. Another deep-water genus lessdegraded is Cottunculus, from which by gradual loss of fins thestill more degraded Psychrolutes {paradoxus) and Gilbcrtidia(sigolutes) are perhaps descended. In sculpins of this type theliparids, or sea-snails, may have had their origin. Among the PareioplitiE, or Mailed-cheek. Fishes 659 remaining genera Gymnocanthus {tricuspis, etc.) has no vomer-ine teeth. Leptocottns (arinatus) and Clinocottus (aitalis) aboundon the coast of California, and Psendohlenniiis {percoides) is

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