Phycis regius (Walb.)

Goode, G. B. & Bean, T. H., 1883, Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U. S. coast survey steamer “ Blake, ” Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding., Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 10 (5), pp. 183-226 : 204

16. Phycis regius (Walb.) , Jordan & Gilbert.

Blennius regius, Walbaum, Artedi, 1792, p. 180 .

Urophycis regius, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. , 18G3, p. 240.

Phycis regius, Jordan & Gilbert , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., I., 1878, p. 371. Goode & Bean, Cat. Fish. Essex Co. and Mass. Bay, 1879, p. 8; Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., III. p. 70; Goode, ibid., p. 470 (with synonymy).

Specimens of this beautif ul Hake were obtained at depths of 142 and 233 fathoms. Prof. Agassiz and the officers of the “Blake” had their attention forcibly attracted to a singular power of emitting electric shocks possessed by this fish. This peculiarity has never been noticed in this species save in deep water. The attention of observers is called to this interesting point.