Fig. 383.—Irish Lord, Hemilepidotus jordani Bean. Unalaska.
Fig. 384.—Triglops pingeli Kröyer. Chebucto, Canada.
Fig. 335.—Buffalo Sculpin, Enophrys bison (Girard). Puget Sound.
To Icelinus, Artedius, Hemilepidotus, Astrolytes, and related genera belong many species with the body partly scaled. These are characteristic of the North Pacific, in which they drop to a considerable depth. Icelus, Triglops, and Artediellus are found also in the North Atlantic, the Arctic fauna of which is derived almost entirely from Pacific sources. The genus Hemilepidotus contains coarse species, with bands of scales. The "Irish lord," Hemilepidotus jordani, a familiar and fantastic inhabitant of Bering Sea, is much valued by the Aleuts as a food-fish, although the flesh is rather tough and without much flavor. Almost equally common in Bering Sea is the red sculpin, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus, and the still rougher Ceratocottus diceraus. The stone-sculpin, or buffalo-sculpin, Enophrys bison, with bony plates on the side and rough horns on the preopercle, is found about Puget Sound and southward. In all these large rough species from the North Pacific the preopercle is armed with long spines which are erected when the fish is disturbed. This makes it almost impossible for any larger fish to swallow them.
Fig. 386.—Ceratocottus diceraus (Cuv. & Val.). Tolstoi Bay, Alaska.
