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Genus LOTA (Cuvier) Oken 



Body long and low, compressed behind; head small, de- 

 pressed, rather broad; anterior nostrils each with a small 

 barbel; chin with a long barbel; snout and lower parts of head 

 naked; mouth moderate, the lower jaw included; each jaw with 

 broad bands of equal, villiform teeth; vomer with a broad, cres- 

 cent-shaped band of similar teeth; no teeth on palatines; gill 

 openings wide, the membrane somewhat connected, free from 

 the isthmus; scales very small, embedded; vertical fins scaly; 

 dorsal fins two, the first short, the second long, similar to the 

 anal; caudal rounded, its outer rays procurrent; ventrals of 

 several rays. One or two species, living in fresh waters of 

 northern regions. 



349 Lota maculosa (Le Sueur) 

 Burbot; Lawyer; Ling 



Gadus maculosus LE SUEUR, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. I, 83, 1817, Lake 

 Erie. 



Gadus lacustris MITCHILL, Am. Month. Mag. II, 244, February, 1818. 



Lota frosmiana STOKER, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. IV, pi. 5, fig. 1, 1839. 



Lota inornata DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 283, pi. 45, fig. 145, 1842, Hud- 

 son River. 



Gadtts compressus LE SUEUR, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. I, 84, 1817. 



Lota compressa DE KAY, op. cit. 285, pi. 78, figs. 244, 245, 1842. 



Molva maculosa LE SUEUR, Mem. Mus. Paris, Y, pi. 16, 1819. 



Lota maculosa DE KAY, op. cit. 284, pi. 52, fig. 168, 1842; JORDAN & GILBERT, 

 Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 804, 1883; MEEK, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci. IV, 

 315, 1888, Cayuga Lake; BEAN, Fishes Penna. 138, pi. 35, fig. 75. 1893; 

 EVERMANN & KENDALL, Kept. U. S. F. C. 1894, 603, 1896; BEAN, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 372, 1897, Canandaigua Lake; JORDAN & 

 EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat Mus. Ill, 2550, 1898; IV, pi. CCCLXIV, 

 fig. 897, 1900. 



The body of the burbot is elongate, eel-shaped; its greatest 

 hight equaling the length of head without snout, and about 

 one sixth of total without caudal ; it is roundish, somewhat com- 

 pressed posteriorly. The eye is small, less than one half length 

 of snout and about one eighth length of head. The upper jaw 

 reaches slightly beyond the hind margin of the eye, its length 

 three sevenths length of head. The lower jaw is included 

 within the upper, and has a stout barbel which is nearly one 

 fifth as long as the head; the ventral is longer than the pectoral, 



