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VITAMIN D GROUP 



TABLE III— Concluded 



Common name of fish 



Boston mackerel 



California mackerel* 



Pufferfish 



Cabezon 



Round-nose sole* 



Nibe 



Pacific white perch 



Fork-tail perch 



Black cod* 



Chili-pepper 



Cabrilla* 



Newfoundland turbot 



Pacific cod* 



Atlantic salmon 



Rock cod 



Rex sole 



Pointed sole 



Sculpin 



Sand dab 



Atlantic hake* 



California turbot 



>Menuke* 

 Atlantic cod* 

 Yellow sole 

 Widowfish 

 Tinker mackerel 

 Atlantic pollack* 

 Pacific pollack* 

 Sheepshead 

 California flying fish 

 Corbina 

 Rosefish* 



Common skate of California 

 Abura karei 

 Big skate of California* 

 Kiohiji 

 Wolffish 

 ^.'aoific dogfish* 

 Same karei 

 Thresher shark 

 Basking shark 

 Atlantic dogfish 

 Ratfish 

 Gray sole 

 Sturgeon 



» From Bills et aJ."' with revisions; nomenclature from Jordan et al."' wherever possible. The species 

 marked (*) are represented by more than one assay. 



as much vitamin D per gram as the body oil. Different species show dif- 

 ferences in the physicochemical constants of the oil, but these differences 

 yield no clue as to the amount of vitamin D in the oil or hjw it got there. 

 The vitamin D values given in Table III represent average figures for 

 the more important species, and occasional figures for the less common ones. 



