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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 



THE THREE-BEARDED ROCKLING (.sw. tketomhaue .skaklangan). 



O.XOS TRICIREATUS. 

 Fig. 131. 



Ouhi three harlieh: one at eaeli aiiterior nostril and one under the chin. Lenf/th of the head in adult specimens 

 20 — 22'^:.-, % of that of tlie bodif. Lo)ir/itiidinat diameter of the eyes in fidl-f/roirn specimens Jess than 30 % of 

 the ])ostorhital length of the ]iead, tliis length heing greater than tlie distance between the tip of the snout and tlie 

 hind extremitii of the maxillary bones, and also (as a rale) than the length of the lower jaw, which is more than 

 half the length of the head. Least deptth of the tail more than (! % of the length of the body, than V- '^"' ^c^(^ 

 of the frst dorsal fin, than I'J % of the distance between tlie second dorsal fin and tlie tip of the snout, or than 

 4.5 % of the depth of the hodji at the beginning of the ancd fin. Base of the first dorsal fin less than "/g, its 

 first ray less than ^1^, of the distance between it and the tip of tlie snout. 



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131. Olios trivivfi.it IIS from tlie islaiul-btlt of Giitlieiiburg, 22iiil Nov., 1880. 



of Gotlionburg Miiseiun. 



tlif natural size. Spefiiiieii in tliu possession 



R. l,r. 7; />. (55) 58— GO (04)"; A. (45) 47 — 4'J (54)''; 

 P. 19-21'-; V. 7''; U. 30; Vert. 48— 49^ 



iSyii. jViistelie varietas, Willughky, Hist. Fisc, p. 121; Rocklirifj, 

 Mnstela marina vulgaris (1), Jago apud Raium, iSynops. Pise, 

 p. 1(54, fig. 9; r/iree Bearded Cod, Penn.. Brit. Zoiil (177C). 

 toil). Ill, p. 17G, tab. XXXIII, No. 87. 

 Gadiis tricirratus (p. p.), Brlnn.. /rlitlii/al. Afussil., p. 22; 

 Donovan, Nat. Hist. Brit. Fisli., vol. I, tab. II; Flmng, 

 Brit. Aiiim., p. 193; Nilss. {Motella), Prodr. Iclith. Scand., 

 p. 48; Sicand. Fn., Fistc., 586; Gthr (p. \). + M. maciilaln. 

 p. p.), Uat. Brit. Miis., Fish., vol. IV, j.p. 3G5 et 366; 

 Oi.ssuN, Ofvers. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1HG7, p. G50: Coll., A'id. 

 Sebk. Forh. Christ. 1874, Tillfegsh., p. 121; Mor., Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss. Fr., toni. HI, p. 268: Day, Fish. Gt. Brit., 

 Irel., vol. I, p. 317, tal>. LXXXVIII, fig. 1. 



" 55 — 57, according td 



62-64, 



50 — 60, „ „ 



'' 51—54, 



45—50, 

 ' 21—22, 



16—18, 



Day. 



LCtkex. 



Moeeau. 



LCtken. 



Mop.eau. 



Li'TKEN. 



Day. 



Gadiis argenteohis, Montagu, Mem. Weru. Soc, vol. II, p. 449; 

 Yaru. (Motella), Brit. Fish., ed. 2, vol. II, p. 283; Gtiir 

 (Concilia arijeiitata), Cat. Brit. Miis., Fish., vol. IV, p. 363; 

 Day (1. c), tab. LXXXIX, fig. 3. 



Gailus MiisteUa, Risso, Iclith. Nice, p. 120; Ii>. {Onos), Fur. 

 Me'r., torn. Ill, p. 215. 



Motella vulgaris, Yare., Brit. Fish., cd. 1, vol. II, p. 186: 

 ed. 2, vol. II, p. 270; Steind. (p. p.), Stzber. Aknd. Wiss^ 

 Wicn, Math. Naturw. CI. LVII, i (1868), p. 710: LCtk.. 

 Vid. Meddel. Natuth. For. Kbhvn 1881, p. 235; Coll. (Onos), 

 N. Mag. Naturv. Christ., Bd. 29 (1884), p. 87. 



Motella quadricornis, Kr. nipt., Lt)TK., 1. c, pp. 245 — 246. 



Onos viaculatiis, Lill.i., Sc, Norg. Fisk., vol. II, p. 1G4. 



Ohs. Brunnich, it is true, has not given a description of this 

 species definite enongh to enable ns to decide witb any certainty 



'' Sometimes 8, according to Lltken. 

 *■ According to Gi'NTHER. 



