356 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



PHYCIS, Schneider. 



Phycin, SCIINF.IDF.R, Bloch's Systema Icbthyologia-, 1801, 5G (type, I'liycis linca, Schn.).— Civier, Ri"^Kne 

 Animal, id. 1, 1817, ii, 21G. — Guntiier, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv, 351. — Johdan and Gilbekt, Bull, xvi, 

 U. S. Nat. Miis., 71>8. 



Gadoid.s with rather elongate body, and with two dor.sal fins, the first soinetiines pro- 

 duced at the tip, and the second long, similar to the single anal. Head somewhat com- 

 pressed; mouth rather large, the maxillary extending beyond vertical from front of orbit; 

 lower .jaw included; broad bauds of subequal, pointed teeth on Jaws and vomer, palatines 

 toothless. \^entrals narrow, filamentous, each of 3 rays and widely separated. Gill mem- 

 braues slightly connected, narrowly joined to the isthmus. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF PHYCIS. 



I. No filamentous ray in first doisal. 



A. First dorsal triangular. 



1. Second dors.alluearly as high as first, 130 scales in lafc. lino P. mf.diterraneus 



2. Second dorsal much lower than hrst, 100 scales in lat. line P. blennioides 



B. First dorsal falcate. 



1. Lateral line gently arched, with white spots. Pectorals passing veutrals. About 90 scales in 



lat. line P. uegius 



2. Lateral line strongly arched, broad over pectoral. Vcntrals passing pectorals. About 155 scales 



in lat. line [P. Earlii] 



C. First dorsal rounded, not higher than second. 



1. Lateral line gently arched in front. 



a. Vent very far back. Ventrala attenuate, surpassing origin of anal. AI)out 90 scales in lat. 

 line P. ciRRATUs 



II. A prolonged filamentous ray in first dorsal. 



A. Ventrals less than half as long as body. 



1. Lateral line gently arched. Ventrals surpassing pectorals. 



a. Scales moderate, about 110 in lat. line P. CHUss 



b. Scales small, about 138 in lat. line P. tenuis 



B. Ventrals more than half as long as body. 



1. Lateral line strongly bowed anteriorly. Ventrals very elongate. 



a. Scales large, about 90 in lat. lino P. Chester! 



PHYCIS MEDITEEEANEUS, DeLaRocue. 



Blenniua phycis, LlNN^tJS, Systema Naturae, ed. xii, 1766, 442. — Bruxsicii, Ichthyologia Massiliensis, 28. — 

 De i,a Roche, Ann. Mus., xiv, 1809, 280.— Eisso, Ichth., Nice, 125. 



Phycis medUtrratieus, De la Roche, Ann. Mus., xiir, 1808, 332; Memoires, 46. — Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. M6rid., 

 222. — GuiCHENOT, Explor. Alger., 103. — Costa, Fauna Napol. — Lowe, Fishes of Jladeira, 191, pi. xxvii.^ 

 GCnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv, 3.54. — Cane.strini, Archiv. Zool., ii, 364 ; Fauna Italica, 157. — Giolioli, 

 Elenco, 336. — Vaillant, Exp. Sci. TravaOleur et Talisman, 1888, 289. — Moreau, Hist. Nat. Poiss., France, 



m, 266. 



Phycis Umhatits, Valenciennes, in Webb and Berthelot, Hist. Nat. Ues., Canar., 78, xiv, fig. 2. 



A riiycis with its body 4 times the length of the head, which is slightly louger than its 

 greatest height. Snout obtuse, projecting, longer than the diameter of the eye. Origin of 

 first dorsal somewhat behind that of jiectoral; its rays are not produced and it is scarcely 

 higher than the second. Ventrals somewhat i^rolonged, but their ti] is not passing the origin 

 of the anal. Scales small, about 130 in the lateral line, and 11 or 12 series above the lateral 

 line below the first dorsal. 



Radial formula: D. 9-11 + 57-63. A. 52-60. 



Color brownish; dark upon the back, lighter upon the belly. Vertical fins with a black 

 margin and a narrow, white edge. 



This southern European Hake is known from the Canaries and Madeira; at moderate 

 de])ths in the Mediterranean at Nice, Naples, and Sicily, and the coast of Algiers ; and also 

 in the Adriatic at Trieste and Venice; and is rare everywhere. It was taken by the 

 Travailleur in 18S2 in the Gulf of Gascony (station i) at a depth of 614 meters. 



