GADID^. — XCVII. 257 



1. GOBIOSOMA, Girard. Naked Gobies. 

 1. G. mo/esta, Grcl. Duskv brown; head 3+ in 

 length; D. VII — 12; A. 12. Coast of Texas, entering 

 rivers. A single specimen in the Museum of Comp. 

 Zoology from the Ohio R., near Louisville i^Putnain.^ 



SUB - ORD EE.-ANAC AjSTTHIISri. 



(J^Jie Jugular Fishes.) 



FAMILY XCVIL-GADID^. 



(Tlie Cod Fishes) 

 Body elongated, covered with small smooth scales; 

 dorsal fins 1, 2 or 3, occupying most of the back; rays 

 of posterior part well developed; vertical fins never 

 entirely united (as in some related families); ventrals 

 jugular, usually several-rayed; gill openings wide; air 

 bladder usually present; no pseudoljranchire; pyloric 

 coeca usually in large numbers (30 or more in Lota). 

 Genera about twenty-five; species about seventy. An 

 important family, found chiefly in the northern seas; a 

 sino'le a:enus inhabitino; the lakes and larger streams of 



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the northern parts of Europe and America. 



* Chin with a barbel ; dorsals 2; aual single; teeth villiform. 



Lota, 1. 



/. LOTA, Cuvier. Lings. 



1. L. maculosa, (LeS.) Cuv. Ling. Burbot. Lake 

 Lawyer. Eel-Pout. Lake Cusk. Dark olive, thickly 

 marbled with blackish; yellowish or dusky beneath; head 

 broad, depressed; body sub-cylindrical in front, com- 

 pressed behind; upper jaw (usually) longest; D. 13 — 7G; 

 A. o8; V. 7; length 1|- to 2^ feet. Great Lakes and 

 streams of New England, north to the Arctic Circle, 

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