3. MORA. 341 



maxillis." Barbel none. Eyes large. Caudal forked. Sides with 

 two interrupted brown longitudinal bands. (Steller.) 

 Kamtschatka. 



2. GADICULUS. 



Gadiculus, Guichen. Explor. Alger. Poiss. p. 101. 



Body moderately elongate, covered with scales of moderate size. 

 Eye large. A separate caudal ; three dorsal and two anal fins ; ven- 

 trals composed of several rays. Cleft of the mouth oblique, with the 

 lower jaw rather longer than the upper. Jaws with a narrow band 

 of small teeth ; vomer and palatines smooth. Branchiostegals seven. 



Mediterranean. 



1. Gadiculus argeuteus. 

 Gukheri. I. c. p. 102. pi. 6. fig. 2. 



Barbel none. The first anal is rather longer than the other fitns. 

 The vent is situated in the vertical from the last rays of the soft 

 dorsal. (Guich.) 



Coast of Algiers. 



We refer, for the present, the following species to this genus : — 



2. Gadiculus hleunioides. 

 Gadus blennioides, Pall. Spicil. viii. p. 47. tab. 5. fig. 2. 



D. 10-11 I 17 I 16. A. 23 I 19. V. 5. 



A barbel at the chin. The length of the head is nearly one-fourth 

 of the total (without caudal) ; the diameter of the eye is contained 

 three times and a half in the length of the head. Teeth in the jaws 

 of unequal size. The vent is situated vertically below the first dorsal. 

 Each ventral is composed of a long ray, bifid at its end, and of four 

 other very small ones. Silvery, greyish on the back. (Pall.) 



Mediterranean. 



3. MORA. 



Mora, Hisso, Eur. Merid. m. p. 224. 



Asellus, Valenc. in Webb 8f Berthel. Ues Canar. Poiss. p. 76. 



Pharopteryx, Riipp. Verzeichn. Mus. Senckenb. Fische, p. 16. 



Body moderately elongate, covered with scales of moderate size. 

 A separate caudal ; two dorsal and two anal fins ; ventrals composed 

 of six rays. Teeth small, cardiform, of equal size, in the upper jaw 

 in a band ; teeth on the vomer and sometimes on the palatine bones. 

 Branchiostegals seven. 



Mediterranean. Canary Islands. 



1. Mora mediterranea. 



Gadus moro, Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 116. 



Mora mediterranea, Risso, Mir. Merid. iii. p. 224 ; Bonap. Faun. Ital. 

 Pesce; Loive, Proc. ZjoI. Soc. 1843, p. 91. 



