ir>0 TELEOSTEI: ACANTHOPTERI. — XX. 



214. ANARRHICHAS (Artedi) Linn.Tus. (Ancient name, 

 fruin dvaiypLxaofiai, to scrainblu up.) 

 44."). A. lupus L. WoLK-KisH. Vomerine teeth extending 

 mufli farlher back than palatine. Brown, sides with 9 to 12 blatk 

 bar.>i, continued on 1) , besides dark s])ots and reticuhitions. Head 

 6 ; depth 5^. D. LXIl. A. 42. L. 4 feet. Caj)e Cod, N. (£u.) 

 (l.at., wolf.) 



Family LXXXVI. LYCODID^. (Tiik Eel-pouts.) 



I?ody more or less eel-sliaped, naked or with small, eycloid scales; 

 nioutli larj^e, with conical teeth; head unarmed; gill miMnbranes 

 united to isthmus; pseudobranchiie present; gills 4. D. and A. 

 very long, of soft rays only, or with a few spines in posterior part 

 of I). 1^. small. \'ertical fins conHuent around the tail. V. ju- 

 gular, imperfect or wanting ; lateral line obsolete. Vertebra? in 

 large number. Genera 10; species 35. Cold or deep waters, 

 chiefly Arctic. This group seems most closely allied to the Hlen- 

 nies, but it agrees with the Anacanthini in wanting the spinous 

 dorsal. (XvkwS?;?, wolfish.) 



o. D. with sciine of its posterior rays verj' short and spine-like; V. small. 

 (^Zoircince.) 



h. Scales present; teeth strong, in jaws only Zoakces, 215. 



215. ZOARCES Cuvier. {^u>apxh^i vivij)arous.) 

 44G. Z. anguillaris (Peck). Ekl-tout. Muttox-klsu. ^Mother 



OP' Eels. Brownish, mottled with olive. Head 6 ; depth 6. D. 



95, XVin, 17. A. 105. L. 20. Del. to Labrador, common N. 



(On the Grand Banks occur several species of the related genus 



Li/rotle.i, which is without D. spines.) (Lat.. like an eel.) 



The next family is in several respects peculiar, and marks the 



transition from the Bleuny-like to the Cod-like (ishes. 



Family LXXXVII. PHIDIID^. (Tin; Do.nzellas.) 



Body eel-shaped, naked or covered with very small scales which 

 are placed in (il)li(pie series at right angles to each other; mouth 

 large, with villiform or cardiform teeth. Gill openinirs wide, the 

 gill membranes narrowly joined to the isthmus behind V. ; pseudo- 

 branchiie small or 0. Gills 4. Vertical fins low, of soft rays only, 

 confluent around the isocercal tail. Ventral fins at the throat, each 

 developed as a long forked barbel. Air-bl.adder present. Genera 5, 

 species 15; carnivorous fi.shes of the warm seas. 



a. Body scaly; pnlalini's with a hand of villiform teeth only; operrle wilh- 

 out spine; teeth in jiiws tixed Opuiuion, 216. 



216. OPHIDION (.\rtedi) Linnanis. (Diminutive o{ 6(fiis, snake.) 



417. O. marginatum DeKay. Brownish; D. and .\. edged with 



black. Air-bladder short and broad, with foramen below ; gill 



