. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). SYSTEMATIC REVISION OF THE TELEOST FAMILY CARAPIDAE 289 Fierasfer dentatus Kaup, 1856, Catalogue of Apodal Fish : 157. (non Ophidium dentatum Cuvier, 1817, Regne Animal, 2:239.) Giinther, 1862, Catalogue of Fishes, 4 :38i. Day, 1880, The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, 1 : 228. Colett, 1882, Forh. VidenskSelsk., Kristiania, 1882, (19) : 5. Sim. 1883, Scottish Nat., 7 : 35. Fries, Elcstrom & Sundevall, 1893, History of Scandinavian Fishes. 2 : 260. Aflalo, 1904, British Salt-water Fish : 294. Elirenbaum-Helgoland, 1909, Nord Plank. 10

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. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). SYSTEMATIC REVISION OF THE TELEOST FAMILY CARAPIDAE 289 Fierasfer dentatus Kaup, 1856, Catalogue of Apodal Fish : 157. (non Ophidium dentatum Cuvier, 1817, Regne Animal, 2:239.) Giinther, 1862, Catalogue of Fishes, 4 :38i. Day, 1880, The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, 1 : 228. Colett, 1882, Forh. VidenskSelsk., Kristiania, 1882, (19) : 5. Sim. 1883, Scottish Nat., 7 : 35. Fries, Elcstrom & Sundevall, 1893, History of Scandinavian Fishes. 2 : 260. Aflalo, 1904, British Salt-water Fish : 294. Elirenbaum-Helgoland, 1909, Nord Plank. 10 : 217. Grieg, 1911, Bergen Mus. Aarbok. 1911 (6) : 17. Ehrenbaum-Helgoland, 1936, Naturgeschichte und Wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Seefische Nordeuropas : 15. The following account is based upon 132 adults in the collection of the Scottish Home Department's Laboratory at Torrey, Aberdeen, obtained mainly from the coastal waters of north and west Scotland and Northern Ireland, and three late vexillifers in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History), obtained at Banff. The type was found dead on a beach at Glenarm, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. It can no longer be traced.. 50 mm Fig. 16.—Echiodon drummondi Thompson. A representative specimen from Scottish waters. Specific characters. Greatest recorded length 300 mm.; length of head one- ninth to one-eleventh of total length ; maximum depth of head about one-half and maximum width about one-third of length of head ; upper profile of head convex ; horizontal diameter of eye slightly greater than length of snout, about twice as great as interorbital width ; maxilla extends well behind posterior edge of orbit ; anus 3-5 mm. posterior to roots of pectoral fins ; pectorals about three-fifths length of head ; patch of teeth on vomer rounded anteriorly, tapering posteriorly and merging with bands of palatine teeth ; colour in life believed to be reddish, with sUvery abdomen, operculum and iris and dark markings on top of