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RIBAND-SHAPED. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



RIBALD-SHAPED. 



THE VAAGMAER, OR DEAL-FISH. 



Gymnogaster 

 Bogmarus Islandicus, 

 Gymnetrus arcticus, 



Trachypterus Bogmarus, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. x. p. 346. 

 Gymnetrus arcticus, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 219. 



BRUNNICH. 



SCHNEIDER, p. 518, pi. 101. 



Vaagmaer, or Deafish, FLEM. Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. iv. 

 p. 21 5, fig. 34. 



Dealjish, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 372. 



Vogmarus Islandicus, REINHAHBT'S Vaognxere. 



Generic Characters. Body elongated, compressed ; dorsal fin extending the 

 whole length of the back, a few of the anterior rays sometimes elongated ; ven- 

 tral fins fragile, if not worn or broken, rather long ; no anal fin ; caudal fin-rays 

 rising almost vertically from the horizontal line of the vertebral column ; a row 

 of small spines along the lateral line. 



DR. FLEMING has published, in the Magazine of Natural 

 History above quoted, an account and description of this 

 interesting addition to the catalogue of British Fishes, and 

 appears to be the only British naturalist who has made 

 known its occurrence in Scotland. The specimens obtained, 

 however, were either so mutilated, or so imperfectly pre- 

 served, that the author in his paper was induced to doubt 

 the propriety of retaining this species in the genus Gj/mne- 

 trus, and proposed to restore it, as a fish having no ventral 

 fins, to its original station in the genus Gymnogaster of 

 Brunnich. 



