120. GADID^ GADUS. 807 



anal; ventrals short. Head 4; depth 4i. D. 13-22-20; A. 25-20; Lat. 

 1. about 150; vertebrae 54. North Atlantic; common northward on 

 both coasts. 



(Gadus virens and G. carhonar'uis Linn. Syst. Nut. : Merlangus purpureus Storer, Fish. 

 Mass. 35«: Gadun vinim Giinther, iv, 339: FoUacldus carbonariun Gill.) 



1244. O. cIialcoga'siBBisnias Pallas. 



Blackish above, with silvery luster; everywhere punctulate wath 

 black; fins also punctulate; ventrals and first anal pale. Snout conic, 

 sharp, rounded in profile; mouth oblique; maxillary reaching middle 

 of x>upil ; chin with a minute barbel ; teeth small, those of the outer 

 row above slightly enlarged; eye large, wider than the flat interorbital 

 space, 4 in head. Gill- membranes somewhat united, the j^osterior out- 

 line deeply eraarginate; 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. Ross.-Asiat. iii, 198, 1811-1831: Gadus perisco- 

 pus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1873: Gadus chalcogrammus Giiutlier, iv, 340.) 



ee. Upper jaw with an outer series of rather larger teeth. {Borcogadus* Giiuther.) 



1245. O. 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 eye, 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; pectorals Ih) 



vent below front of second dorsal. Scales very minute, non-imbricate. 



Head 3|; depth 5 J. D. 13-15-21; A. 10-21. [Collett) Greenland to 



Alaska and Russia. 



(Gadus saida Lepechin, Nov. Comm. Acad. Scient. Petrop. 1774, 512: Gadus saida 

 Giinther, iv, 337; Collett, Norske Nord-IIavs Exp. 1880, 126: Merlangus polaris Sa- 

 bine, Ai»p. Parry's Voyage, ccxi, 1824: Gadus fahricii Rich. Fauna Bor.-Amer. iii, 245: 

 Gadus fahridi Giinther, iv, 336: Boreogadus polaris Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1863, 233: Boreogadus saida Bean, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mns. iv, 108: ^ Gadus pggmaus Pal- 

 las, Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat. iii, 190, 1811: Gadus agilis'Ri.Ank. Kgl. D. Vid. Selsk, 1838, 126: 

 ^ Gadus glacialis Peters, Nord-Pol Exp. ii, 172, 1874.) 



*GUnther, Cat, Fish. Brit, Mns. iv, 336, 1862: type Gadus fahricii Rich, {fiopeoi, 

 northern; Gadus,) 



