MALACOPTERYGir. GADIDJE 



SUBBRACHIALES. 



TAB. VII. 



PHYCIS YARRELLII, Nob. 

 Abrotea do alto. 

 Yarrell's Phycis, or Forked Hake. 

 Char. Gen. 



Corpus elongatum, postice compressum. Caput depressiusculum ; mento unicirrato. Pinnae dor- 

 sales duiB ; prima brevi, triangulari ; secunda elongata, ad caudalem fere protensa : ventrales unira- 

 diatse, radio furcato. 



Obs. — Genus inter Gadidas subaustrale ; e paucis speciebus, iisque regionis temperatioris, extra- 

 tropicae, coloribus tristioribus, simplicibus, cinereis, fuscis, &c. magnitudinisque mediocris, adhuc 

 constans. 



Char. Spec. 



P. capita depresso : corpora graciliore, elongato, angusto, pallida lilacino-cinereo ; pinnis dorsalibus 

 analique caudaliqua nigris, albo fimbriatis : dorsalis prima quinquaradiata, acuminata, dorsali secunda 

 postica latiore, angulata, duple altior ; analis rfiedio depressa, antice altior, postice angulata : ventra- 

 libus capite subbrevioribus. 



l"""- D. 5 ; 2^^ D. 59 V. 60 ; A. 60 ; P. 22 v. 23 ; V. 1 ; C. 20 fere ; M. B. 7. 

 P. Yarrellii, Syn. Mad. Fish. 190. 



Longit, —7^ — 8| poll. = 5 X alt. 



Tempus, vara. 



Locus, in profundis, e littore procul : rariss. 



In point of general utility, and application to the wants and the ne- 

 cessities of man, the Cod-fish tribe assumes a rank and an importance in 

 the eyes of the economist which is scarcely paralleled by any other. 

 Yielding a wholesome and abundant aliment, whether fresh or cured, 

 the Cod, Ling, Coal-fish, Haddock, Whiting, Hake, and Tusk or Torsk 

 of Shetland, afford, directly in the way of food, or through the various 

 channels of employment or of commerce opened by their means, support 

 or wealth to millions. A bounteous Providence has contributed to this 

 their destination, by endowing them with prodigious powers of fecundity ; * 

 and has further brought them within the sphere of human art and industry 

 by implanting in the greater number of the species a voracity of appetite 

 which much facilitates their capture. Their general confinement to the 



* " Nine millions of ova have bean found in the roe of one female " of the common Cod, {Morrkua 

 vulgaris, Cuv.) Yarr. Brit. Fish. ii. 148. 

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