390 MACRU1UD.1!:. 



Fam. 5. MACRURIDtE. 



Gadoidei, pt., Cuv., 3Iull. 

 Gadida3, pt., Owen. 

 Macrui'idte, RicJiardson. 



Body terminiiting in a long, compressed, tapering tail, covered 

 with spiny, keeled or striated scales. One short anterior dorsal, the 

 second very long, continued to the end of the tail and composed of 

 very feeble rays ; anal of an extent similar to that of the second 

 dorsal ; no caudal. Ventral fins thoracic or jugiilar, composed of 

 several rays. Pseudobranchise none ; six or seven branchiostegals. 

 Air-bladder present. Pyloric appendages numerous. 



Temperate parts of the North Atlantic. Mediterranean. Japanese 

 and Australian seas. 



Synopsis of the Oenera. 



Scales of moderate size ; snout produced, conical ; 



mouth inferior 1. Mackurus, p. 390. 



Scales of moderate size ; snout obtuse, obliquely 



truncated ; cleft of the mouth lateral 2. Corypii,enoides, p. 395. 



Scales very small 3. Malacocephalus, p. 396. 



1. MACRURUS. 



Macroxu'us, Block, i. p. 152. 

 Lepidoleprus, Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 197. 



Scales of moderate size, keeled or spiny. Snout produced, conical ; 

 mouth inferior. Head with rough ridges ; the suborbital ring forms 

 a strong lateral ridge, joined with, and supporting the angle of the 

 prseoperculum, which has a very distinct ridge. Teeth in a band, 

 villiform or cardiform, without larger ones in the outer series ; palate 

 smooth. Ventral fins below, or immediately behind or before the 

 pectorals. A barbel. 



Mediterranean ; temperate parts of the Noi-th Atlantic ; Japan ; 

 Australia. 



1. Macrurus rapestris. 



Corypha?na rupestris, Fahr. Faun. Granl. p. 154; L. Gm. i. p. 1195. 

 Macrouius rupestris, Bl. i. p. 152. taf. 177 ; Bl. Sclin. p. 103. tab. 20 ; 



Niks. Sha}id. Faun. Fisk. p. 604. 

 fabricii, Sunclev. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1840, p. 6. 



D. 11 I 124. A. 148. V. 8. 



Five series of scales between the fii'st dorsal and the lateral line ; 

 each scale with a strong longitudinal keel, terminating in a point. 

 The first ray of the first dorsal rounded at the base, denticulated 



