GADIDAE s7 



Physiculus dalwigkii, Kaup. 



1858, Arch. Nahirgesch., xxiv (1), p. 88; Giinther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 348; Giinther, 1887, 

 Deep-Sea Fish. 'Challenger', p. 88; Vaillant, 1888, Exped. Sci. ' Travailleur' et ' Talisman', 

 Poiss., p. 290, pi. xxv, fig. 3. 



Hab. Madeira ; off Soudan. 



In the British Museum 3 specimens, 215-240 mm. in total length. 



Physiculus kaupi, Poey. 



1865, Repert. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, 1, p. 186, pi. iv, fig. 1; Goode and Bean, 1895, Ocean. Ichth., 

 p. 366; Jordan and Evermann, 1898, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., xlvii (3), p. 2548. 



Hab. Deep waters of the Atlantic. 



In the British Museum 2 specimens, 230-265 mm. in total length. 1 



Physiculus japonicus, Hilgendorf. 



1879, SitzBer. naturf. Freunde Berlin, p. 80; Franz, 1910, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Suppl. iv, 

 Abh. 1, pp. 27, in, pi. v, fig. 20, pi. x, figs. 10, n; Jordan and Hubbs, 1925, Mem. 

 Carnegie Mus., x, p. 326. 



Physiculus kaupi (part), Giinther, 1887, Deep-Sea Fish. 'Challenger', p. 88, pi. xvii, fig. A. 



Physiculus dalwigkii, Steindachner and Doderlein, 1887, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien., liii, 

 p. 279. 



Hab. Japan. 



In the British Museum 3 specimens, 280-375 mm. in total length. 



Physiculus peregrinus (Giinther). 



Pseudophycis peregrinus, Giinther, 1871, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 669. 



Physiculus peregrinus, Giinther, 1887, Deep-Sea Fish. 'Challenger' , p. 88; Weber and Beaufort, 

 1929, Fish. Indo- Austral. Arch., v, p. 9. 



Hab. Philippines. 



In the British Museum a single specimen, 135 mm. in total length — type of the 

 species. 



Physiculus longifilis, Weber. 



1913, Fische ' Siboga'-Exped., p. 178, pi. v, fig. 6; Weber and Beaufort, 1929, Fish. Indo- Austral. 

 Arch., v, p. 10, fig. 3. 



Hab. Flores Sea. 



Physiculus edelmanni, Brauer. 



1906, Tief see- Fische ' Valdivia', p. 274, pi. xii, fig. 6. 



Hab. Deep water off the coast of East Africa. 



Brauer had 3 specimens of this species, 150-223 mm. in total length, none of which 

 showed any trace of a barbel. 



1 The tail has been broken in both specimens. 



