i 7 2 COMMON COD FISH. Class IV. 



XIX. Head fmooth. 



Seven flender branchioftegous rays. 

 Body oblong ; fcales deciduous. 

 All the fins covered with a common fkin, 

 Ventral fins flender, and ending in a point. 

 Teeth in the jaws ; and in the palate, a feries of 

 minute teeth clofely let together. 



* With three dorfal fins ; the chin bearded. 



73. Common. La Morue. Belon y 121. fyn. pifc. 53. 



Molva. Rondel 280. Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 



Molva five morhua altera. cirrato, cauda asquali fere 



Gefner pifc. 88. cum radio primo fpinofo. 



Kablauw. Schoncvelde, 18. Arted, fynon. 35. 



Afellus major vulgaris. Wil. Gadus morhua. Lin.fyji. 436. 



Icth. 165, Gronov. Zoopb. No. 319. 



Cod-fiih, or Keeling. Rati Cabblia. Faun.Suec. No. 398. 



THIS fifti is found only in the northern part 

 of the world ; it is, as Rondeletius calls it, 

 an ocean fifh, and never met with in the Mediter- 

 ranean fez*. It arFedls cold climates, and feems 

 confined between the latitudes 66 and 50 : what: 

 are caught north and fouth of thofe degrees being 



* None (fays Captain Armftrong in his hiftory of Minorca) 

 $f the Afelli or cod fifh kind, frequent our fhores. /. 163. 



either 



