252 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OP 



Gadus proximus Girard. 

 Synonymy. 



Gadus proximus Girard, Proc. Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila., vol. 



vii. p. 141, 1854. 

 Gadus proximus Girard, op. cit., vol. vii. p. 151. 

 Morrhua californica Ayres, Proc. California Academy of Natural Sciences, 



vol. i. p. 9, 1854. 

 Morrhua proxima Girard, Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route, &c, 



vol. vi. Abbot's Report, Zoology, p. 22. 

 Moarhua proxima Girard, op. cit., vol. x. Fishes, p. 142, pi. xl.a, figs. 5 8. 

 Morrhua proxima Girard, op. cit., vol. x. Whipple's Report, Zoology, p. 50. 

 " " " op. cit., vol. x. Williamson's Report, Zoology, p. 86. 



Gadus proximus Gill, Proc. Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila., 1862. 

 " californicus Gunther, Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum, 



vol. iv. p. 332. 

 Hah. California and Oregon. 



Family BROTULOIDJE Blkr. 



Synonymy. 



Brotuloidei Bleeher, Enumeratio specierum Piscium hucusque in Archipelago 



Indico Observatorum, &c, p. xxv. 1859. 

 Ophidiidse (Brotulina) Gunther, Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum, 



vol. v. pp. 370, 371, 1862. 

 Gadidse pt. auct. 



Elongated fishes, compressed and regularly tapering behind, with tail 

 generally more or less subtruncated, with the anus subm^ian ; scales either 

 absent or cycloid and minute, imbedded in a lax skin, which more or less 

 envelopes the fins ; very large branchial apertures ; vertical fins united, or 

 contiguous, the dorsal commencing not far from the nape, the caudal narrow 

 or pointed, the ventral fins replaced by simple or bifid filaments attached to 

 the humeral arch and more or less in advance of the pectoral. Pyloric caeca 

 few (1 or 2), rarely obsolete or in increased number (12). 



The supramaxillars are generally enlarged behind and produced towards 

 their upper angle. 



The genera referred to the group Brotulina by Gunther may be provisionally 

 retained in this family and distributed in the following manner. The sub- 

 families, perhaps, do not follow in natural order. 

 I. Ventral fins inserted considerably in advance of the pec- 

 toral fins. 

 I. Body scaly, moderately long. 

 A. Pyloric cseca none, one or two. 

 t. Lateral line continuous. 



1. Snout and lower jaw with barbels. Caeca 1 or 2. Brotclinje. 



* Ventral filaments bifid Brotula. 



** Ventral filaments entire Nematobrotula.* 



2. Head without barbels. Caeca 2 Brosmophtcin.s. 



* Head naked Brosmophycis. 



** Head scaly Dinematichthys. 



3. Head without barbels. Caeca none Lucifugje. 



* Palatine bones without teeth Lucifuga. 



** Palatine bones with teeth Stygicola.t 



/?. Lateral line interrupted or double Bythitinje. 



* Type. Brotula ensiformis Gunther. 

 f Lucifuga dtntatus Poey. 



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