3G4 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



Color, very light brown, the dorsals and anal with a narrow dark margin. A conspicu- 

 ous large, triangular, dark blotch on the last rays of the dorsal and anal, and a dark blotch 

 occupying almost the whole of the caudal, leaving a margin of whitish around it. 



In addition to the type, specimens of this species were obtained by the Albatross as 

 follows: Cat. No. 39269, IT. S. X. M., from station 2416, in 31° 20' N. lat, 79° 7' W. Ion., at 

 a depth of 270 fathoms; from station 2.370, in 29° 3' 15" N. lat., 88° 10' W. Ion., at a depth 

 of 324 fathoms; from station 2379, in 28° 15" N. lat., 87° 42' W. Ion., at a depth of 1,407 

 fathoms; from station 2396, in 28° 34' N. lat., 80° 48' W. Ion., at a depth of 335 fathoms; 

 from station 2397, in 28° 42' N. lat., 80° 30' W. Ion., at a depth of 280 fathoms; from station 

 2125, in 11° 43' N. lat., 69° 9' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 208 fathoms, and from station 

 2219, in 39o 40' 22" N. lat., 09° 29' W. Ion., at a depth of 94S fathoms. 



MOLVA, Nilsson. 



Molva, Nilsson, Skandinav. Fauna. 1832, iv. 573 (type, Gadus molva L.). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 

 iv, 361. — Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. XVI, U. S. Nat. Mus., 801. — Day, Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 305. 



Gadoids having the body elongate, nearly cylindrical. Bands of cardiform teeth in jaws 

 and on vomer, the lower jaw having some large ones, as also has the vomer; the palatine 

 and tongue toothless. Two dorsal fins, both well developed, the first with 10 to 1G rays; 

 and one anal. Ventrals narrow, composed of rays. A barbel present. Scales very small. 

 Branchiostegals seven. Pseudobranchiai absent. 



MOLVA VULGARIS, FLEMING. (Figure 317.) 



Gadus molva, Linnaeus, SyBt. Nat., ed. x, 175s, 2.". I ; ed. xn, 17GG, 439. 



Enchelyopus molva, Schneider, Bloeh, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 51. 



I.uiu molva, Bonaparte, Catalogue, No. 367. — Moreau, Hist. Nat Poiss. France, in, 258. 



Molva vulgaris, Fleming, British Animals, 192. — Guntiier, Cat. Fish. Brit. .Mus., iv, 361. — Collett, Nyt 



Mag. f. Naturvid., 1884, 84.— Lilljebokg, Sverig. och Norg. Fisk., 131.— Day, op. cit., 305. 

 Gadus raptor, Nilsson, Prodromus, 46. 



A Molva having a body 7 or 8 times as long as its own greatest height, and 5 times as 

 long as the head. Upper jaw the longer, the maxillary reaching to below the middle of the 

 orbit. Teeth cardiform in the jaws, with an inner row of rather widely separated and larger 

 ones in the mandible; in a semicircular band on the vomer, among which a few larger ones 

 are interspersed. The first dorsal inserted over the latter half of the pectoral, its greatest 

 height two-fifths of that of the body below it. Pectoral about half as long as the head. 

 Anal insertion in vertical over seventh or eighth ray of second dorsal. Barbel longer 

 than eye, the diameter of the eye being about equal to the width of the iuterorbital space. 

 Scales small, covering the head, body, and fins. 



Eadial formula: D. 13-10+03-70. A. 57-06. 



Color, back gray, lighter on the sides and beneath; vertical tins edged with white. 

 A dark blotch at the posterior end of the first dorsal, and a more distinct one on the end 

 of the second dorsal. 



This fish, the "Ling" of Europe, is found from Spitzbergen to the Gulf of Gascony, 

 where specimens have been taken very exceptionally at Arcachon and San Juan de Luz. 

 It is very rare, however, south of the British Channel, and most abundant along the coast 

 of Northern Europe and about Iceland, especially in the German Ocean and off Norway. 

 It is rare about Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, and has never been found in the 

 Baltic. It is said to have been found in the deep water oft' Newfoundland, but we have 

 been unable to find the specific record. Collett states that on the Norwegian coast young- 

 examples rarely occur at less depth than 100 fathoms, and according to Lilljeborg the 

 largest are caught in from 80 to 150 fathoms. 



