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Phycis, Arted., and Schn.(l) 



Only differs from the other Gadi in having; ventrals with a single 

 ray, and frequently forked. The head is thick, the chin furnished 

 with a cirrus, and the back with two finsj the second of which is 

 long. Some species are found in the seas of Europe. 



P. mediterraneiis, Laroche; P. tinea, Schn. ; Blennius phycis, 

 L; Salvian.; fol. 230. (The Sea-Tench.) The most common in 

 the Mediterranean; its anterior dorsal is round, and not higher 

 than the other; ventrals about the length of the head. 



P. bletinoides, Schn.; Gad. albidus, Gm.; Blennius gadoides, 

 Riss. ; Gad. furcatus, Penn.; Merhis barbu, Duham., II, pi. xxv, 

 f. 4. (The Forked Hake.) Another species that is also taken 

 in the Ocean; the first dorsal is elevated, and its first ray consi- 

 derably elongated; ventrals twice the length of its head. (2) 



Raniceps, Cuv. 



The head more depressed than that of a Phycis or of any other 

 Gadus, and the anterior dorsal so extremely small, that it is lost, as 

 it were, in the thickness of the skin. From the Ocean. (3) 



Macrourus, B1. Lepidoleprus, Risso. 



It is impossible to avoid approximating the fishes of this genus to 

 the Gadi. Their suborbitals unite in front with each other, and 

 with the bones of the nose, to form a depressed snout which pro- 

 jects above the mouth, and beneath which the latter preserves its 

 mobility. The entire head and body are invested with hard scales 

 covered with small spines; ventrals small and somewhat jugular; 

 pectorals moderate; first dorsal short and high; the second dorsal 



Klein for all sorts of eloiig'atecl fishes, signifies anguilliform. Gronovius restrict- 

 ed it to the Blennius vivipurus, which is my genus Zoarous. 



(1) Phycis, the old name of a Goby. Rondelet apphed it to our first species, 

 of which Artedi had made a genus, united with the Blennies by Llnnecus, and re- 

 established byBloch, Ed, Schn., p. 56. 



(2) The above characters were taken down by me witli both the fishes under 

 my eye. The Batracjio'ides Gmelini, Hiss., Ed. I, fig. 16, does not differ from our 

 first species. Add, the Enchelyopiis ainericanus, Schn., or Blennius chubs, Nat. of 

 Berl., VII, 143, or Gadus longipes, Mitch., I, 4. N.B. The fig. of Schn., pi. vi, 

 is improperly referred to the Phycis tinea, as has been truly remarked by M. de 

 la Roche, Ann. Mas., XIII, p. 333; it is rather that of the G. longipes. 



(3) The Gadus runinus. Mull. Zool. Dan. pi. 45. Blennius raninus, Gmel. 

 Battacho'ides bltnnio'ides, Lacep. Phycis ranina, Bl., Sclin., 57\ the Gadus tri fur ~ 

 fo/uj, Penn. Brit. Zoo!., Ill, pi. 32. Phycis fusca, Schn. 



