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1676. Brosme brosme (MuUer). Cusk; European cusk; Nejorpallujak; Torsk; 



Tusk. 

 Polar regions, south to Cape Cod. 



Gadus brosme Miiller, Prodr. Zool. Dan., 1776, 41, Denmark. 

 Gadus torsk Bonnaterre, Encycl. Meth. Ichth., 1788, 51, Sundmer, 



Norway; after Strom. 

 Brosmerus flavesny LeSueur, M^m., Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, V, 1819, 158, 



Banks of Newfoundland; Marblehead, Mass. 



Family 127. MERLUCnD.£. Hakes 



Genus 550. MERLUCCIUS Raflnesque. Hakes. 



Merluccius Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 25 (Af. smiridus Rafinesque = 



Gadus merluccius L.). 

 Onus Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 12; substitute for Merluccius. 

 Merlangus Rafinesque, loc. cit., 167, another substitute for Merluccius. 

 Merlus Gay, in Guichenot, Pesces de Chile, II, 1848, 238 (Merlus gayi 



Guichenot) . 

 Epicopus Giinther, Cat., II, 1860, 248 {Merlus gayi Guichenot). 



1677. Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus). European hake. 



Coasts of Europe, straying to Greenland. 



Gadus merluccius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 254, no locality; 

 Europe. 



Gadus ruber Lacdpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 673, Scotland; Dieppe. 



Gadus merlus Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, 122, Nice; after Linnaeus. 



Onus riali Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 12, 67; substitute for Gadus mer- 

 luccius. 



Merlucius esculentus Risso, Europ. M6rid., Ill, 1826, 220, Nice. 



Merluccius ambiguus Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840, 37, Madeira. 



Merlucius lanatus Gronow, Cat. Fishes, ed. Gray, 1854, 130, Mediter- 

 ranean. 



1678. Merluccius bilinearis (Mitchill). Silver hake; New England hake; 



Whiting; Old England hake; Silverfish; American hake; Stockfish. 

 Coast of New York and northward. 



Stomodon bilinearis Mitchill, Rept. Fish. N. Y., 1814, 7, New York. 

 Gadus albidus Mitchill, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1817, 409, New 



York. 



1679. Merluccius productus (Ayres). 



Pacific coast, from San Diego northward to Washington. 



Merlangus productus Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., I, 1855, 64 



(65), no locality given; types from San Francisco market, probably 



from San Francisco Bay. 

 Ilomalopomus trowbridgii Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VIII, 



1856, 132, Astoria, Oreg. 



1680. Merluccius angustimanus Garman. 



Off Panama, in deep water. 



Merluccius angustimanus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., XXIV, 

 1899, 183, PI. XLI, fig. 1, off Bay of Panama. 



Order GG. SALMOPERC^ 



Family 128. PERCOPSIDiE. Sand rollers ; Trout perch 



Genus 551. PERCOPSIS Agassiz. 



Percopsis Aga.ssiz, Lake Superior, 1850, 284 (P. guttatus Agassiz = 



Salmo omiscomaycus Walbaum). 

 Salmoperc.a Thompson, App. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 33 (<S. pellucida 



Thompson = »So/mo omiscomaycus Walbaum). 



