488 ORDER MALACOPTERYGII SUBBRACHIATI. 



Finally, in 



Brotula, Cuv., 



The dorsal and anal are united with the caudal into 

 a single fin, terminating in a point. 



But a single species is known, belonging to the 

 Antilles, with six barbels, Enchelyopus barbatus, Bl., 

 Schn., Parra, pi. xxxi. f. 2. 1 



Phycis 2 , Artedi and Schn., i '-' 



Differ from the other Gadi only by having ventrals 

 with a single ray, often forked. Their head, besides, 

 is thick ; there is a barbel on the chin, and two fins 

 on the back, the second of which is long. There are 

 some species in our seas. 



The most common in the Mediterranean is that 

 named Molle, or Sea-tench, {Phycis Mediterraneus, 

 Laroche, Phycis tinea, Schn., Blennius phycis, Linn.) 

 Salvian. fol. 230. Its anterior dorsal is round, and 

 not more raised than the other ; its ventrals are pretty 

 nearly the length of its head. 



1 My four subdivisions of Lota, Motella, Brosmius, and Brotula, 

 are united by Schneider in the genus Enchelyopus. This name, 

 formed originally by Klein for all sorts of elongated fishes, signifies 

 Angu'dliform, or shaped like an eel. Gronovius confined it to the 

 Blennius vivijiarus, which is my genus Zoarcus. 



2 Phycis, the ancient name of a gobius. Rondelet has applied it 

 to our first species of which Artedi had made a genus, united to the 

 blennies by Linnaeus, and re-established by Bloch, Ed. de Schn. 

 p. 56. 



