2534 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



Oadus .saida, Lepeghin, Nov. Comm. Ac. Sci. Petrop. 1774, 512, White Sea; Pallas, 

 Zoogr. Kosso-A.siat.. in, 199, 1811 ; Giinther, Cat., iv, 337, 1862 ; Collett, Norske Nord- 

 Havs Exped , 126, 1880; Jordan ct Gilbert. Synopsis, 307, 1883. 



JlferiftHfiTMS jjotaris, Sabine, Supp. Parry's Voyage, ccxi, 1824, Bafiins Bay; Richardson, 

 Last Arctic Voyage, 27, 1824. 



Gadtis fabricii, Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., lil, 245,1836, northern bays of Green- 

 land; after Gadus (eglifinus of Fabricius. 



Gadits arjilis, Reinhardt, Danske Vid. Selsk. Af h., vii, 126, 1838, Greenland. 



Gadus glncialin, Peters, ISTord Pol. Expd., ii, 172, 1874. 



Pollachius polar is, Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. A., 218, 1861. 



Borcojjadus polaris, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 233. 



Borcogadus saida. Bean, Bull. F. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 108, 1879; Scofield, in Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Kept. Fur Seal Invest., 1898. 



977. POLLACHIUS, Nilssoii. 

 (Pollacks.) 



Pollachius, Nilsson, in Bonaparte, Catalogo Metodico Pesci Europ., 45, 1846 (pollaclmis). 



Body rather elongate, covered witli miuiite scales; mouth moderate or 

 large, the lower jaw projectint;; barbel very small or obsolete; villiform 

 teeth on vomer, none on palatines; teeth in Jaws equal or the outer 

 slightly enlarged ; gill membranes more or less united ; subopercle and 

 postclavicle not eularged and not ivory-like; dorsal tins 3; anal 2; caudal 

 lunate; vent under lirst dorsal. Large fishes of the northern seas. 

 (Polog or Pollack, the English vernacular name, latinized as Pollachius, 

 as though derived from TtoXAaxi), many fashioned.) 



2903. POLL.\CHIi:S VIREXS (Liuna?us). 



(POLLACK; COAL-FISH; GREEN COD.) 



Head 4; depth 4i. D. 13-22-20; A. 25-20; scales about 150; vertebra; 54. 

 Body rather elongate, compressed; snout sharp and conic; mouth rather 

 small, oblique; maxillary reaching beyond front of orbit; lower jaw 

 slightly the longer; teeth in the upjier jaw nearly ecjual, the outer series 

 not being especially enlarged; barbel rudimentary or obsolete; gill mem- 

 branes considerably united, free from isthmus; vent under first dorsal; 

 caudal fin lunate; pectorals short, scarcely reaching anal; ventrals short, 

 their origin in front of base of pectoral a distance about equal to diam- 

 eter of eye. Greenish l)rown above; sides and below somewhat silvery; 

 lateral line pale; fins mostly pale; sometimes a black spot in the axil. 

 North Atlantic; common northward on both coasts, south to Cape Cod 

 and France. (Eu.) {virena, green.) 



Gadvs virens, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 253, 1758, Seas of Europe ; after Gadus triptery- 

 gius imberbis of the Fauna Suecica ; GiJNTHEE, Cat., iv, 339; Jordan & Gilbert, 

 Synopsis, 807, 1883. 



Gadtis carbonarius, Linn.s;us, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 25i, 1758, seas of Europe; after Gadus 

 dorso tripterygius imberbi of Abtedi. 



