308 ANACANTHINI. 



Genus V Lota, Cuvier. 



Branchiostegals seven or eight : pseudobranchice absent. Body elongated. A 

 barbel below the chin. Cardiform teeth on jaws and vomer, none oil the palatines or 

 tongue. Two dorsal fins and a single anal: caudal distinct: ventral with six or 

 seven rays. Small scales over the body. 



Geographical distribution. Fresh-water fishes inhabiting the temperate por- 

 tions of northern Europe and America. 



1. Lota vulgaris, Plate LXXXVII. 



Mustela, Pliny, Hist. Nat. is, c. 16. Strinsias s. Botarissas, Belonins, De. 

 Aqnat. p. 302, etc. and Glorias fiuviatilis, 1. c. p. 304. Lota, Rondeletius, ii, 

 p. 164, and Barhota, p. 165. Botlatrio?, triseus, Salviani, p. 213. Mustela 

 fiuviatilis, Gesner, p. 599, and ed. 1598, fol. 172&, c. fig. Quappen, Schonevelde, 

 p. 49. Lota Gallorum, Aldrovandus, v. c. 46, p. 648 ; Jonston, iii, tit. 3, c. 11, 

 p. 168, t. xxix, f. 10. Mustela Jluviatilis, Willughby, p. 125, t. H 3, f . 4 ; Ray, 

 Syn. Pise, pp, 67, 68. Gadus barbatus, Miiller, Prod. Zool. Dan. p. 41 ; Koel- 

 reuter, Nov. Com. Petroph. 19, p. 424. Gadus, sp. Artedi, Synon. p. 38, no. 13, 

 and Genera, p. 22, no. 10, and Silurus cirro in mento uuico, Species, p. 107. 

 Britten, Marsigli, Danub. iv, p. 71, t. xxiv. Burbot, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (ed. 

 1776) iii, p. 199 (ed. 1812) iii, p. 265. Barbolt, Bowdich, British Fresh-water 

 Fishes, 1828, no. xxx. 



Gadus lota, Linn. Faun. Suec. 315 and Syst. Nat. p. 440 ; Bonn. Atl. Ich. 

 p. 49, pi. xxx, f. 110 ; Bloch, p. 177, t. lxx ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1172 ; Lacepede, ii, 

 p. 435 ; Donovan, British Fishes, iv, pi. xcii ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. iv, p. 154, pi. 

 xxiii, f 2 ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 91 ; Pallas, Zoogr. iii, p. 201 ; Hartmann, 

 Helvet. Ich. p. 50 ; Ekstrom, Vet. Akad. Handl. p. 43, and Fische Morko, p. 235 ; 

 Brandt and Rat. i, p. 52, t. vii, f. 2. 



Enchelyopus lota, Bloch, Schn. p. 52 ; Gronov. ed. Gray, 1854, p. 101. 



Lota vulgaris, Cuv. Regne Anim. ; Jurine, Poiss. Lac. Leman, 1825, pi. ii ; 

 Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, iv, p. 580 ; Jenyns, Manual Brit. Vert. p. 448 ; Yarrell, 

 Brit. Fishes (Ed. 1) 1836, ii, p. 183, c. fig. (Ed. 2) ii, p. 267 (Ed. 3) i, p. 572 ; 

 Fries och Ekstrom, Skand. Fisk. p. 170, t. xli ; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Russ. 

 Merid. iii, p. 350; Kroyer, Dan. Fiske, ii, p. 169, c. fig.; White, Catal. p. 93; 

 Giinther, Fische Neckar, p. 124, and Catal. iv, p. 359 ; Heckel and Kner, Suss. w. 

 fis. ost. Mon. p. 313 ; Blanchard, Poiss. Eau. dou. France, p. 272, c. fig. ; Schlegel, 

 Dieren Neder. p. 82, pi. viii, f. 1 ; Malm, Wiegm. Arch. 1864, p. 297 ; Steindachner, 

 Verb., z. b. Ges. Wien. 1866, p. 387 ; Collett, Norges Fiske, p. 115, and Christ. 

 Vid. Sels. Forh. 1879, i, p. 67 ; Houghton, British Fresh-water Fishes, p. 165 

 c. fig. ; Day, Cotteswold Nat. Field Club, 1880, p. 221, c. fig. ; Moreau, Poiss. 

 France, iii, p. 256 ; Giglioli, Pesc Ital. p. 37. 



Molva lota, Fleming, Brit. Anim. p. 192. 



Lota, communis, Rapp, Fische Bodensees, p. 36. 



Burlolt, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iii, p. 93, pi. cxlvi. 



Synonymy of American examples. 



Gadus lota, Schopf, Schrift. Gesell. Nat. Freund. Berlin, viii, p. 141 ; Pennant, 

 Arctic Zool. Introd. p. exci. 



Gadus lacustris, Mitchell, Amer. Month. Mag. ii, p. 244. 



Lota maculosa, Leseur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. i, p. 83; Richardson, Fauna 

 Bor.-Amer. Fish, p. 248 ; Kirtland, Boston, Journ. Nat. Hist, 1842, iv, p. 24, 

 pi. iii, f . 1 ; De Kay, New York Fauna, Fish, p. 284, pi. Iii, f. 168 ; Agassiz, Lake 

 Superior, p. 325. 



Molva maculosa, and M. huntia, Leseur, Mem. Mus. v. 1819, pp. 151, 161, 

 pi xvi. 



Lota compressa, Leseur, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. i, p. 84 ; Storer, Fish. Mass. 

 p. 134 ; De Kay, 1. c. p. 285, pi. Ixxviii, 1'. 244, 245. 



