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Inhabits the Atlantic coast of North America from Greenland 

 to Cape Hatteras in deep waters. It reaches a depth in the Gulf 

 Stream of 1081 fathoms. The fish is described and figured by 

 Goode and Bean in Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 381, fig. 327. It is a 

 small species, scarcely reaching 1 foot in length, and is without 

 importance as food. 



Genus ENCHELYOPUS Bl. & Schn. 



Barbels four, one at each nostril, one at tip of snout, and one 

 at the chin; head high and compressed anteriorly; teeth in nar- 

 row bands, some of them enlarged; otherwise essentially as in 

 Gaidropsarus. North Atlantic. 



355 Enchelyopus cimbrius (Linnaeus) 

 Fonr-^earded RocTcUng 



Gadus cimbrius LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. XII, I, 440, 1766, Atlantic Ocean. 

 Motella caudacuta STOREB, Hist. Fish. Mass. 183, pi. XXIX, fig. 1, 1867. 

 Onos cimbrius JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 797, 1883. 

 RMnonemus cimbrius GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichth. 384, fig. 328, 1896; 



H. M. SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 107, 1898; SHERWOOD & EDWARDS, 



Bull. U. S. F. C. 1901, 31, 1901. 

 Enchelyopus cimbrius JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 



2560, 1898; IV, pi. CCCLXVII, fig. 907, 1900. 



Body slender, tapering, its depth nearly one sixth of the total 

 without caudal; caudal peduncle narrow, one fourth length of 

 head, which is contained five and one half times in total without 

 caudal; snout moderate, blunt, rounded, not depressed, a little 

 shorter than the eye, which is one fourth as long as the head; 

 interorbital space narrow, one sixth length of head; teeth villi- 

 form, small and unequal in upper jaw, with about eight enlarged 

 in front, long, slender, and equal in lower jaw, a few somewhat 

 enlarged in' front; maxillary reaching beyond posterior border 

 of eye; a barbel at each nostril, one on tip of snout and one on 

 chin; lateral line with about 35 enlarged pores along its entire 

 length; first (free) ray of dorsal nearly as long as the head; 

 ventral one half as long as head; pectoral equal to head without 

 snout; caudal narrow, rounded behind, two thirds as long as 

 head. 



Color, light rufous or salmon red; first dorsal ray and pos- 

 terior end of dorsal and anal abruptly black; lower half of caudal 



