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dusky. Upper fins, caudal and pectoral tinted dusky. Inside cf 
gill-opening soiled with dusky. Length 1934 inches. Sea Isle 
City. 
Two examples have been examined from the above locality. 
Breeding in deep water, and though considered as a food-fish it 
is little valued. 
Merlucius vulgaris Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 819. 
Order PEDICULATI. 
The Pediculate Fishes. 
This is an offshoot from the Acanthoptert, perhaps nearest 
related to the Batrachoidide. 
Key to the families. 
a. Pseudobranchiz present. LOPHIIDA! 
aa. No pseudobranchiz. : ANTENNARIID% 
Family LOPHIID. 
The Anglers. 
Body contracted, conical, tapering rapidly backward from 
shoulders. Head wide, depressed, very large. Mouth exceed-. 
ingly large, terminal, opening into an enormous stomach. Upper 
jaw protractile. Maxillary without supplementary bone. Lower 
jaw projecting. Both jaws with very strong unequal cardiform 
teeth, some canine-like, most depressible. omer and palatines 
usually with strong teeth. Gill-openings comparatively large, in 
lower axil of pectorals. Gills 3. Gill-rakers none. Pseudo- | 
branchiz present. Pyloric coeca present. Skin mostly smooth, 
naked, with many dermal flaps about head. Spinous dorsal of 
III isolated tentacle-like spines on head, and III smaller ones 
behind forming a continuous fin. Second dorsal moderate, similar 
to anal. Pectoral members scarcely geniculated, each with 2 
actinosts and with elongate pseudobrachia. Ventrals jugular, [, 
