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iiUiiiiit.icniAi. 



MALACOPrERYOII. 



GADIDJE. 



THE COMMON COD. 



THE KEELING. 



Miirrhini vulgaris, CuviEU, Regne An. t. ii. p. 331. 



,, Cod, Flem. Brit. An. p. 191, sp. 76. 



,, ,, Cfldjish, Keeling, Willughby, p. 165, L. 1, fig. 4. 



,, ,, LiNN.i.us. Blocii, pt. ii. pi. 64. 



,, ,, Common Codfish, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 231. 



Codfish, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 106. 



Generic Characters — Body elongated, smooth, compressed towards tlie tail ; 

 back furnislied witli three dorsal fins ; ventral fins pointed ; abdominal line 

 with two fins behind the anal aperture ; tlie lower jaw with one barbule at tlic 

 cliin ; branchiostegous rays 7. 



Baron Cuvier''s first division of liis second order of 

 fishes, those with flexible fin-rays, and with the ventral fins 

 attached to the abdomen, being concluded, the soft-finned 

 fishes of the second division, or those forming- his third 

 order, succeed. These arc recognised by having the ventral 

 fins [)laccd very near the pectorals ; the bones supporting the 



" Ihu family ot llie Codfish. 



