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ANARHICHAS. 



The head elevated, short, descending in front. The body more 

 compressed; tail separate. Strong teeth in the jaws. Dorsal fin single, 

 long, not joined to the tail; no ventral fins 



WOLF-FISH. 



CATFISH, 



Lrqms marinus Schenfeldii, JoNSTON; Table 47, f. 2, but without a 



description. The figure copied by 

 Willoughby, H. 3, f. 1, and p. 130. 

 Anarhichas lupus, LinnjEus. Cuviek. Block ; pi. 74. 



Anarhique loup, Lacepede. Donovan; pi. 24. 



" Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 208. 



Anarhichas lupus, Jenyns; Manual, p. 384. 



" " Yarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 277. 



" Gunther; Cat. Br. M., vol. iii, p. 208. 



The Wolf-fish is well known in all the countries which lie 

 on the borders of the North Sea, from Iceland and Greenland 

 to Norway and Sweden, and the shores of Ireland and Scotland, 

 with those of the coasts of the east of England; but it is 

 among the rarest of fishes on the south of the British Islands. 

 Yet it has sometimes been taken there, and a specimen is 

 known to have been caught at Plymouth, with another at 

 Fowey, in Cornwall. A third example Avas obtained at Looe 

 within our own knowledge, and from this our figure and 

 description were derived; a circumstance the more fortunate as 

 we are not able to refer with confidence to a published 

 likeness of the fish, except in the elegant work of Fries and 

 Eckstrom, on the "Fishes of Scandinavia;" most of the others 

 appearing to have been drawn from dried skins or such as 

 were very indifferently preserved. In some parts of Scotland, 



