A History of Scandinavian Fishes Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...In Sweden and on the coasts of Europe the Lump Sucker probably never exceeds a length of 6 dm. and a weight of 5l/j kgrm., and is generally much smaller. The females are, as a rule, larger and, especially during pregnancy, thicker than the males. A gravid female 46 cm. long, according to Nilsson, weighs 3% kgrm. According to Buckland, a female 5 dm. long and 3 "Orbis ranro rictu and Orbis spinosus in Clusius, Willughby and Ray, Crayracion ore rictu ranse and Crayracion scutatus in Klein, are synonymous with Ostracion rotundo-oblongus, tuberculis utrinque, pinna dorsi longissima and Ostracion subrotundns, aeuleis undique brevibus planis, ventre glabro, in Artedi (Gen., p. 59; Syn., p. 86), and Diodon raninus and Diodon spinosus in Linnaeus (Syst. Nat., ed. X, torn. I, pp. 335 and 336), both of which were subsequently referred by Linnjsus (Syst. Nat., ed. XII, torn. I, p. 414) to Cyclopterus lumpus. b Mobius and Heincke state trie maximum length of the Lump Sucker at 12 dm.; Storer (Mem. Amer. Acad., VIII, part. 2, p. 404) states that the largest specimen he had seen weighed 183/4 lbs. = 8i.2 kgrm. The largest specimen belonging to the Royal Museum is 485 mm. iu length, and was taken in Norwegian Fin mark (1837, S. Loven). dm. deep (thick) weighs nearly 5 kgrm., the roe forming 680 grm. of this weight. In shape the Lump Sucker is one of our most singular fishes, heing bulky and polygonal, as the Swedish name shows, for by sjurygg (Seven-back) is only meant that it has seven longitudinal ridges, marked by large, spinous plates, on the body, which is scaleless, but rough with small spines. One of these ridges runs in the form of a cartilaginous hump along the dorsal line behind the head, and generally invests the whole of the first dorsal fin, being double...