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437. PHYCIS* Bloch & Schneider. 



Codlings. 



(Bloch. & Schneider, Syst. Tchth. 1801, 56: type Phycia tinea Bloch & Schneider.) 



Body rather elongate; head subconic; mouth rather large, the 

 maxillary reaching to below eye; lower jaw included ; chin with a small 

 barbel; jaws and voiner with broad bands of subequal, pointed teeth; 

 palatines toothless. Dorsal fins two, the first sometimes produced at 

 tip; second dorsal long, similar to the anal. Veutrals wide apart, 

 filamentous, each of 2 or 3 slender rays. Gill-membranes somewhat 

 connected, narrowly joined to the isthmus, (fu/t'r. an ancient name of 

 some fish living in the Fucus, 



a. Dorsal rays scarcely produced. ( UropJi yds \ Gill.) 



1229. P. s-egrius (Walh.) J. & G. 



Pale brownish tinged with yellowish, the lateral line dark brown, in- 

 terrupted by white spots; inside of mouth white; first dorsal largely 

 black, this color surrounded by white; second dorsal olivaceous, with 

 irregular round dark spots; caudal, anal, and pectorals dusky; ven- 

 trals and lower edge of pectorals white; two vertical series of round 

 dark spots on the sides of the head. Body rather stout; head broad; 

 mouth large, the maxillary reaching posterior margin of eye. Eye less 

 than snout or interorbital width; first dorsal low, its height about equal 

 to half length of head; ventral fin longer than head, about 3 in length 

 of body; caudal fin subtruncate. Head 4; depth 4. D. 8-43; A. 

 about 1.1; scales rather large, about 90 in the lateral line. North 

 Atlantic,, south to Cape Fear. Said to exhibit electric powers in life. 



I Illfiiniiix ri'niiiH \V;ill). Art. Pise. 1792, 188: Pit yds punctainx Bek. N. Y. Fauna, Fish. 

 ttHclu-li/o]>im rci/nlin Bloch. & Schn. 1801, 53: Phyds reyal'w Giinthcr, iv, 355.) 



I -:;<>. P. carl I i Bean. 



Brown, with some li^ht spots on the second dorsal fin and on the 

 sides; anal and both dorsals margined with brown. Body short and 

 stout; maxillary extending beyond front of eye; barbel one-third 

 length of upper ja\v, which is half length of head; interorbital space 

 equal to length of snout; pectorals as long as postorbital part of head; 



* " Ifii)>ni]>l<ni in ,/< iili-u" (iiinlhcr ( ii. :;-!i; iv, :;(!J); a very .small silvery lisli, occasion- 

 ally lake 11 <>:i our masts as well as on those of Kim >]><, is now supposed to In- t lie \ ounjr 

 <>(' species of J'lii/i-tn. 



i. ill. 1'roc. Aca.l. Nat. Sci. 1'hila. 1863,240: typo Gadtts rcyiuxVfalb. (ovpa, tail; 

 i$, I'hycis.) 



