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rather broad; anterior nostrils each with a small barbel; chin with a 

 long barbel ; snout and lower parts of head naked ; mouth moderate, 

 the lower jaw included; both jaws with broad bands of equal, villiform 

 teeth, vomer with a broad, crescent-shaped band of similar teeth; no 

 teeth on palatines. Gill-openings wide, the membrane somewhat con- 

 nected, free from the isthmus. Scales very small, imbedded ; vertical 

 fins scaly. Dorsal fins two, the first short, the second long, similar to 

 the anal; caudal rounded, its outer ra^s procurrent; ventrals of several 

 rays. One species, living in fresh waters of northern regions. {Lota, 

 the ancient name.) 



1230. lu. maculosa. (Le S.) C. & V. — Burhot; LaTce Lawyer ; Ling. 



Dark olive, thickly marbled and reticulated with blackish ; yellowish 

 or dusky beneath; young often sharply marked, the adult becoming 

 dull-grayish; vertical fins with dusky margins. Maxillary reaching to 

 posterior margin of eye; barbel longer than the very small eye; pec- 

 toral If in head; ventrals reaching half way to vent. Head 4§; depth 

 6. D. 13-7G; A. 68; V. 7; vertebrtB 21+38; coeca 30. L. 2 feet. New 

 England and Great Lake region, north to the Arctic seas; abundant 

 northward; also (var. vulgaris) throughout Northern Europe and Asia. 



( Gadus lota L. Syst. Nat. : Gadus maculosus Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 i, 83, 1873: Lota compressa, inornata, and maculosa Dekay, New l''ork Fauua, Fish. 1842, 

 283-285: Lota vulgaris Jenyns, Manual Brit. Vert. 448: Lota vulgaris Giinther, iv, 359.) 



442.— BROSMIUS Cuvier. 

 Cusls. 



(Cuvier, R^gue Auim. ii, 1817: type Gadus brosme Muller.) 



Body moderately elongate, covered with very small scales. Mouth 

 rather large, with teeth in the jaws, vomer, and ijalatines, some of 

 those on the vomer and palatines enlarged; chin with a barbel; 

 branchiostegals 7. Dorsal fin single, continuous, not elevated; anal 

 fin similar, but shorter; caudal fin rounded; ventral fins several-rayed. 

 Fishes of the Northern seas. (A latinization of the vernacular name 

 hrosme.) 



1237. B. brosme (Muller) White.— Ciisit. 



Brownish, mottled; young uniform dark slate-color, or with trans- 

 verse yellow bands; vertical fins bordered with blackish, and with a 

 white edge. Head flattened above; upper jaw slightly longer than 

 lower; mouth large, oblique,; maxillary reaching beyond orbit. Head 



