120. GADID^ GADUS. 
807 
anal; ventrals sliort. Head 4 ; depth 4^. D. 13-22-20; A. 25-20; Lat. 
1. about 150; vertebrte 54. ^Torth Atlantic; common northward on 
both coasts. 
(Gadus Virens and G. carhonarius Linn. Syst. Nat. : Merlangus purpnrens Storer, Fish. 
Mass. 358 : 6'a(Z«» firoas Gunther, iv, 339: Pollachius carhonarius GiW.) 
1244. €». c5»aIc«gramiMBas Pallas. 
Blackish above, with silvery luster; everywhere puuctulate with 
black; fins also puuctulate; ventrals and first anal pale. Snout conic, 
sharp, rounded in profile; mouth oblique; maxillary reaching middle 
of pupil; chin with a minute barbel; teeth small, those of the outer 
row above slightly enlarged; eye large, wider than the flat iuterorbital 
space, 4 in head. Gill -membranes somewhat united, the posterior out- 
line deeply emargiuate; vent under interspace between first and sec- 
ond dorsal; first dorsal higher than the others, the second lowest; 
ventrals filamentous, reaching two-thirds distance to vent; pectorals 
long, reaching past front of anal; caudal somewhat concave. Head 
4; depth 5. D. 12-17-18; A. 18-18; Y. 7. North Pacific, south to 
Monterey. 
{Gadus chalcogrammus Pallas, Zoogr. Eoss.-Asiat. ill, 193,1811-1831: Gadus perisco- 
pus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1873: Gadus chalcogrammus Giiuther, iv, 340.) 
ee. Upper jaw with an outer series of rather larger teeth. {Boreogadus* Giiuther.) 
1245. Cr. saida Lepechin. 
Brownish above, silvery below; head, body, and fins minutely dotted 
with black; the dorsals and pectoral almost entirely black, as is the 
lower half of the anal fins; lateral line pale. Barbel minute or absent; 
teeth extremely minute, sharp, those in the outer series a trifle larger; 
snout longer than ej’e, which is equal to interorbital space, and about 
one-fourth head; body elongate; tail slender; caudal deeply forked, 
the upper lobe the longer; ventrals long, 1^ in head; x^sctorals IJ; 
vent below front of second dorsal. Scales very minute, non-imbricate. 
Head 3|; depth 5J. D. 13-15-21; A. lG-21. {Collett.) Greenland to 
Alaska and Eussia. 
{Gadus saida Lepechin, Nov. Comm. Acad. Scient. Petrop. 1774, 512: Gadus saida 
Gunther, iv, 337; Collett, Norske Nord-IIavs Exp. 1880, 126: Merlangus polaris Sa- 
bine, App. Parry’s Voyage, ccxi, 1824: Gadus fabricii Eich. Fauna Bor.-Amer. iii, 245: 
Gadus fabricii Giiuther, iv, 336: Boreogadus polaris Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 
1883, 233: Boreogadus saida Beau, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv, 108: ^ Gadus pygmeeus Pal- 
las, Zoogr. Eoss.-Asiat. iii, IPO, 1811: Gadus agilisReinh., Kgl. D. Vid. Selsk. 1838, 126: 
^ Gadus glacialis Peters, Nord-Pol Exp. ii, 172, 1674.) 
* Giiuther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iv, 336, 1862: type Gadus fabricii Eich. {/3opeo?, 
northern; Gadus.) 
