120. GADID^ LOTA. 
801 
erate size; chin with a barbel; jaws with bands of villiform teeth; 
vomer and palatines toothless. Dorsals 2 ; anal fin single, not notched; 
ventral fins with 5 rays, the outer rays filamentous; caudal rounded, 
slender, free; branchiostegals 7. (A diminutive of Phijcis.) 
1234. P. da^Bwflg'lcu Kaup. 
Color uniform brownish; pectoral and anal whitish; axil of pectoral, 
chin, and belly blackish; inside of month white. Head broad, de- 
pressed; cleft of month oblique; maxillary extending beyond vertical 
from pupil; iuterorbital space flat, its width rather less than vertical 
diameter of orbit; a concealed spine on each side of nape. Height of 
first dorsal equalling half length of head; second dorsal somewhat 
lower, nearly uniform in height; anal similar to second dorsal, but 
lower; pectorals two-thirds length of head; filamentous ventral ray 
not reaching anal. Eleven series of scales betweeen anterior dorsal 
and lateral line. Head 4 in length; depth 5^. D. 7-G7; A. 69; V. 5. 
{GUntJier.) Madeira; lately taken in deep water off the coast of Massa- 
chusetts. 
(Kaup, Wiegm. Arch. 1858, 88; Giinther, iv, 348.) 
440.— MOI.VA Nilssou. 
Lings. 
(Nilsson, Skandinav. Fauna, 1832, iv, 573: type Gadiis molva L.) 
Body elongate, covered with very small scales. Chin with a barbel; 
lower jaw included; bands of teeth on jaws and vomer; lower jaw with 
large canines which are arrow-shaped and movable; vomer w ith a curved 
series of canines, mixed with small teeth, these mostly fixed; no teeth 
on j)alatines. Gill-membranes broadly united. Tw’o dorsal fins, both 
well developed; one anal fin; ventrals of several rays. Northern seas. 
(An old name of 31. vulgaris.) 
1235. M. vmlg-aris Fleming. — Ling. 
Barbel longer than eye; a short barbel at the nostril; eye as wide 
as interorbital space. D. 15-66; A. 62; V. 6; vertebrm 27 + 37. {Giin- 
ther.) Greenland and Northern Europe. 
{Gadus’molva L. Syst. Nat.; Fleming, Brit. Anim. 192; Giintlier, iv, 361.) 
441. — LiOTA Cuvier. 
Burbots. 
(Cuvier, E^gne Anim. ii, 1817: type Gadus lota 'L.=Lota rwlyam Jenyns.) 
Body long and low, compressed behind. Head small, depressed, 
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