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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 



Genus SEBASTES. 



Body perfecthj perciform. Interorhifal space otihj sUghthj concave or quite lerel. Supraorhital spines ai/d the 

 ridges on the top of the Jiead comparatirehj little developed, rreopereuliim irith 5 spines, opercidum iritJt tivo 

 spinous points. Scales of the bodi/ ctenoid, thichlij covering even the maxiUarics. Eyes large. Dorsal fin con- 

 tinuous, with 15 strong, sjiinous rays; anal fin with 3. Cardiform teeth on the loirer jair. the interma.riUaries, 

 the palatine hones, and the vomer. Brancliiostegal rays 7. Vertebrce 30 or 31. Air-bladder present. 



Thus defined, the genus Sebastes, originally es- is viviparous, the entire development of the e^g pro- 



tablished hj Cuvier" with a wider extension, includes ceeding in the ovaries. This peculiarity extends, 



only one species, which belongs to the north of the however, to tlie near relatives of this genus, the 



Atlantic. Kroyer was the first' to point out the re- numerous species of the Nortli Pacific genus Seba- 



markable way in which it propagates its species. It stodes'. 



THE NORWAY HADDOCK (sw. kungsfisken). 

 SEBASTES MARINUS. 



Plate IV, fig. 2 and Fig. 42. 



Colouring flame-red, sometimes grayish or brownish red, on the belly paler and sometimes white, with or without 

 large, irregular, brown spots on the gill-cover and the back. From 30 to 35 pores in the lateral line. 



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Fig. 42. Norway Haddock \_Sehastes mariims {norvegicxi.<<y], found dead on the coast of Laiigo, near Stromstad, on the 4th of Deccmbec, 1884. 



','3 natural size. 

 a: a part of the lateral line with the adjacent ordinary and accessory scales. Full size. 



Forma typica: major, boreali-arctica, iSeb. iiorvei/iciis. 



R. bv. 7; D. 14 1. 15 ^ — ; A.-^\ P. 2 1. .'. + (7 1. 8 1. 9) 



1.'} — 15 7 — 



+ (7 1. 8 1. '.I 1. 10) (in summ. 18 — 20); V. '3; C. ,c + 1 1 1. 12 + ,i'; 



Vert. :il. 



V(tr. minor, borealis, Seb. vivipariis. 

 9 



R. br. 7; P. li 



8 1. 9 (in summ. 17 1. 18); V. V5; C-'. ,f + 11 1. 12+,i'; 

 Vert. .SO. 



" Hist. Nat. Poiss., tome IV, p. 320. 



' Naturh. Tidskr., Kbhvn, ser. 2, bd. 1, p. 275 and Voy. >Scand. (Gaijiard), PI. 6. 

 ' JoiiD., GiLB., Sijn. Fish. N. Amei:, Bnll. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 16, p. G53. 



'' Sometimes 1 + 11 (i. e. one simple and eleven branclied, soft rays), sometimes 1 + 12, and sometimes 2 + 11. Sometimes 14 accord- 

 ing to LiLLJEBORG. 



