160 TELEOSTEI: ACANTHOPTERI. — XX. 
214. ANARRHICHAS (Artedi) Linneus. (Ancient name, 
from dvapprydopat, to scramb!e up.) 
445. A. lupus L. Wour-risH. Vomerine teeth extending 
much farther back than palatine. Brown, sides with 9 to 12 black 
bars, continued on D., besides dark spots and reticulations. Head 
6; depth 54. D.LXII. A. 42. L.4 feet. Cape Cod, N. (£u.) 
(Lat., wolf.) 
Famity LXXXVI. LYCODIDA. (Tue EEL-pouts.) 
Body more or less eel-shaped, naked or with small, cycloid scales; 
mouth large, with conical teeth; head unarmed; gill membranes 
united to isthmus; pseudobranchie present; gills 4. D. and A. 
very long, of soft rays only, or with a few spines in posterior part 
of D. PP. small. Vertical fins confluent around the tail. V. ju- 
gular, imperfect or wanting; lateral line obsolete. Vertebre in 
large number. Genera 10; species 35. Cold or deep waters, 
chiefly Arctic. This group seems most closely allied to the Blen- 
nies, but it agrees with the Anacanthini in wanting the spinous 
dorsal. (Avkwdns, wolfish.) 
a. D. with some of its posterior rays very short and spine-like; V. small. 
(Zoarcine.) 
b. Scales present; teeth strong, in jaws only.. . . . . ZOARCES, 215. 
215. ZOARCES Cuvier. ((wapyns, viviparous.) 
446. Z.anguillaris (Peck). ErL-pour. Murton-FisH. MOTHER 
oF Eres. Brownish, mottled with olive. Head 6; depth 6. D. 
95, XVIII, 17. A. 105. L. 20. Del. to Labrador, common N. 
(On the Grand Banks oceur several species of the related genus 
Lycodes, which is without D. spines.) (Lat., like an eel.) 
The next family is in several respects peculiar, and marks the 
transition from the Blenny-like to the Cod-like fishes. 
Famity LXXXVII. PHIDIIDA. (THE DonzeEttras.) 
Body eel-shaped, naked or covered with very small scales which 
are placed in oblique series at right angles to each other; mouth 
large, with villiform or cardiform teeth. Gill openings wide, the 
gill membranes narrowly joined to the isthmus behind V.; pseudo- 
branchie small or 0. Gills 4. Vertical fins low, of soft rays only, 
confluent around the isocercal tail. Ventral fins at the throat, each 
Ape te: 
developed as a long forked barbel. Air-bladder present. Genera 5, 
species 15; carnivorous fishes of the warm seas. 
a. Body scaly; palatines with a band of villiform teeth only; opercle with- 
out spine; teeth in jaws fixed. . . . . . + » » OPHIDION, 216. 
216. OPHIDION (Artedi) Linneus. (Diminutive of édis, snake.) 
447. O.marginatum DeKay. Brownish; D. and A. edged with 
black. Air-bladder short and broad, with foramen below; gill 
