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Ventrals attached under the pectorals, and the pelvis immediately sus- UutA-'v. - 

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FAMILY XXIII. GADIDjE. 





Body elongated, but little compressed, covered with soft scales not very 

 voluminous ; their head well proportioned and without scales ; all their fins 

 soft; their jaws and the front of the vomer are armed with pointed, irregular 

 teeth, middling, or small sized, in several rows, forming a sort of currycomb 

 or rasp ; their gills are large, with seven rays. Ventrals separate, jugular. 

 Almost all have two or three fins on the back, one or two behind the anus, 

 and a distinct caudal. Their stomach is in the form of a large and strong sac ; 

 their cceca are very numerous, and their caudal tolerably long. They have a 

 large air-bladder, with strong parietes, and frequently dentated in the sides. 



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GENUS I. MORRHUA, Cuv. 



Three dorsal fins ; two anal ; ventrals pointed ; a barbel at the end of the 

 lower jaw. 



1. Morrluia Americana, Storer. 



Body largest and deepest anterior to the dorsal fin. Color very variable ; generally, back 

 ash -colored ; sides lighter ; both back and sides covered with yellowish spots, larger and 

 more distinct upon the sides. Beneath dusky white. Lateral line lighter-colored than the 

 body throughout its whole extent. The second dorsal and first anal with twenty-two rays. 



D 15, 22, 19. P. 19- V. 6. A. 22, 19. C 40. Length, 1 to 3 feet. 



Maine, Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Linsley. New York, Mitchill, De- 



Gadii3 callarias, Common Cod of New York IVTrrcim.r., Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y. i. p. ~G~ 

 Morrhua Americana, American Cod, Stober's Report, p. 120. 



" " Dekav's Report, p. 274, pi. 11, fig. 14ft 



2. Morrhua seglefinus, Lin. 

 Body robust, large in front, tapering behind. Above the lateral line, of a dark ;:ray color ; 

 beneath this line, a beautiful silvery-gray, with a large, dusky, more or less circular patch 

 on each side, on a line with the middle of the pectorals, ils upper portion generally extending 

 above the lateral line, its larger portion usually beneath it. Lateral line of a jet black color. 

 First dorsal elevated ; caudal emarginated. 



