120. GADID.E GADUS. 807 



anal; ventrals short. Head 4 ; depth 4 7 |. D. 13-22-20; A. 25-20; Lat. 

 1. about 150; vertebra? 54. North Atlantic; common northward on 



both coasts. 



(Gadus virens and G. carbonariiis Linn. Syst. Nat. : Merlangus purpureus Storer, Fish. 

 Mass. 358: Gadua viniis Giinther, iv, 339: Pollaclrius carbonarius Gill.) 



1244. O. diaSeograiBBBMiffS Pallas. 



Blackish above, with silvery luster; everywhere puuctulate with 

 black; fins also puuctulate; ventrals and first anal pale. Snout conic, 

 sharp, rounded in profile; mouth oblique; maxillary reaching middle 

 of pupil; chin with a niiimte barbel; teeth small, those of the outer 

 row above slightly enlarged; eye large, wider than the flat iuterorbital 

 space, 4 in head. Gill membranes somewhat united, the posterior out- 

 line deeply emargiuate; vent under interspace between first and sec- 

 ond dorsal; first dorsal higher than the others, the second lowest; 

 ventrals filamentous, reaching two-thirds distance to vent; pectorals 

 long, reaching past front of anal; caudal somewhat concave. Head 

 4; depth 5. D. 12-17-18; A. 18-18; V. 7. North Pacific, south to 

 Monterey. 



(Gadus chalcogrammus Pallas, Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat. iii, 198, 1811-1831: Gadus perisco- 

 pus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1873: Gadus chalcogrammus Giiuther, iv, 340.) 



ee. Upper jaw with an outer series of rather larger teeth. (Boreogadus* Giinther.) 



1245. O. saida Lepechin. 



Brownish above, silvery below; head, body, and fins minutely dotted 

 with black; the dorsals and pectoral almost entirely black, as is the 

 lower half of the anal fins; lateral line pale. Barbel minute or absent; 

 teeth extremely minute, sharp, those in the outer series a trifle larger; 

 snout longer than eye, which is equal to interorbital space, and about 

 one-fourth head; body elongate; tail slender; caudal deeply forked, 

 the upper lobe the longer; ventrals long, 1J in head; pectorals 1; 

 vent below front of second dorsal. Scales very minute, non-imbricate. 

 Head 3|; depth 5. D. 13-15-21; A. 16-21. (Collett.) Greenland to 

 Alaska and Russia. 



(Gadus saida Lepechin, Nov. Comra. Acad. Scient. Petrop. 1774, 512: Gadus saida 

 Giiuther, iv, 337 ; Collett, Norske Nord-Havs Exp. 1880, 126 : Merlangus polaris Sa- 

 Line, App. Parry's Voyage, ccxi, 1824: Gadus fabricii Eich. Fauna Bor.-Amer. iii, 245: 

 Gadus fabricii Giiuther, iv, 336: Boreogadus polaris Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1863, 233: Borcogadns saida Beau, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv, 108: ? Gadus pygmceus Pal- 

 las, Zoogr. Eoss.-Asiat. iii, IPO, 1811: Gadus agilisReiuh. Kgl. D. Vid. Selsk. 1838, 126: 

 ? Gadus glacialis Peters, Nord-Pol Exp. ii, 172, 1874.) 



* Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 336, 1862: type Gadus fabricii Eich. (fiopeo?, 

 northern; Gadus.) 



