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Show 246 PISCES. with a s•m g1 e c1• rru s • This fish ' which is. almost as abundant as the Co d , 1· s as ea s1'l y preserved ' and constitutes a fishery of nearly as much importance.(!) Ga d . l ot a , L .,• Bl. ' 70. (The Burbot.) L. ength, from one to 1 • two 1r eet; ye 11 ow, m arbled with brown; a . smg e c1rrus on the ch·m ; t 11 e two fi n 5 of equal he. ight; the shghtly depres. sed head an d a1 m ost cy 1m. drt'cal body give this fish a ver. y pecuharaspect. It 1· 5 t h e on 1y one o f the genus that ascends rtvers to a. ny great dt·s tance; l· ts fl es hand liver' which latter is very volummous,are highly esteemed.(2) MoT ELLA, Cu v. The anterior dorsal is so low in this subgenus that it is scarcely perceptible. f G · · 1 G ad . must el a, L . Bl ·, 165 ' under the name o • tn.c~rmatU8. Fawn-coloured brown, with blackish spots; two cirri on the upper jaw, and a third on the lower one.(3) BRosMius, Cuv. 'The dorsal entire, and forming one single long fin that extends close to the tail. They are only found in the North. The most common spe· cies, G. brosme, Gm., Penn. Brit. Zool., pl. 34, never descends furthet· than the Orkneys. A larger species, G. lub., New Stockh. Mem., XV, pl. s, it appears is taken in Iceland.(4) BROTULA, Cuv. The dorsal and anal united with the caudal forming one fin, ter· minating in a point. Bl But a single species is known, the Enchelyopus barbatus, o Schn.; Parra, pl. xxxi, f. 2.(5) From the Antilles. The '(1) Add, Gad. baccltus, Forst., App., Bl., Schn., p. 53;-Lota elongata, Risso, Ed. II, f. 47. (2) Add Gadus maculosus, Lesueur, A c. Nat. Sc. Phi lad., I, p, 83. . . . h t Penn Brtt. Zoo 1 0 ~3) Add, Gad. cimbricu8, Schn., pl. 9; or G. qutnquectrr a us, · u: pl. 33, improperly called Mustela by Bloch an d Gme1 .m . C omp are ' also ' thelt; bPrtUru! · tela maculata andfusca, Risso, Ed., II, p. 215 and the Blenniuslupus and 1 Rafin., Caratt., pL iii, f. 2 and 3. lin (4) The names of Ling and Dorse are also applied to the Torsks (Dromu~ several Cantons. See Penn., loc. cit., and Olafsen. Voy. en lsi., tr. fr. P · 27 ~~ ~ (5) My four subdivisions, LoTA, MoTELLA, BRoSMIU&, and BROTULA, are u d by by Schneider in the genus ENcHELYOPus. This name, originally forme MALAVOPTERYGII SUBRACHIATI, 247 PHYors, Arted., and Schn.(I) Only differs from the other Gadi in having ventrals with a single ray, and frequently forked. The head is thick, the chin furnished with a cirrus, and the back with two fins; the second of which is long. Some species are found in the seas of Europe. P. mediterraneus, Laroche; P. tinea, Schn.; Blenniua phycia, L.; Salvian.; fol. 230. (The Sea-Tench.) The most common in the Mediterranean; its anterior dorsal is round; and not higher than the other; ventrals about the length of the head. P. blennoides, Schn.; Gad. albidus, Gm.; Blennius gadoidea, Riss.; Gad. furcatus, Penn.; Merlus barbu, Duham., II, pl. xxv, f. 4. (The Forked Hake.) Another· species that is also taken in the Ocean; the first dorsal is elevated, and its first ray considerably elongated; ventrals twice the length of its head.(2) RANIOEPs, Cuv. The head more depressed than that of a Phycis or of any other Gadus, and the anterior dorsal so extremely small, that it is lost, as it were, in the thickness of the skin. From the Ocean.(3) MAcROURus, Bl.-LEPIDOLEPRus, Risso. It is impossible to avoid approximating the fishes of this genus to the Gadi. Their suborbitals unite in front with each other, and ~vith the bones of the nose, to form a depressed snout which proJects above the mouth, and beneath which the latter preserves its mobility. The entiJ·e head and body are invested with hard scales covel'ed with small spines; ventrals small and somewhat jugular; pectorals moderate; first dot·sal short and high; the second dorsal Kl~in for all sorts of elongated fishes, signifies anguilliform. Gronovius rcstrictedtt to the Blennius viviparus, which is my genus Zo.Ancus. (I} .Phycis, the old name of a Goby. Uondelet applied it to our first species, ofwh~ch Al'tedi harl made a genus, united with the Blennies by Linn reus, andreestabhshecl by Blo<;h, Ed. Schn., p. 56. (2) The above characters were taken down by me with both the fishes under my eye. The Batrachoi'des Gmelini, Hiss., Ed. I, fig. 16, does not differ from our first species. Add, the Enchelyopus americanus, Schn., or Blennius chubs,. Nat. of ~~rl., VII, 143, or Gadus longipes, Mitch., I, 4. N. U. The fig. of Schn., pl. vi, 15 Improperly referred to the Phycis tinea, as has been truly remarked by M. de hRoc~e, Ann. Mus., XIII, p. J33; it is ruther that of the G. longipcs. B { 3 } fhe Gadus raninus, Mull. Zoo!. Dan. pl. 45. Blenniua raninus, Gmel. atraclwi'des hlennioi·des, Lacep. Phycia rani11a, BJ., Schn., 57 ;-the Gadtt,a trifur-cattt8 Penn U 't Z I " . • · rt · oo ., Ur, pl. ;,2, Phycts Jtesca, Schn, \ |
