GADID^E. XCVH. 257 



7. GOBIOSOMA, Girard. NAKED GOBIES. 

 1. G. molesta, Grd. Dusky brown; head 34- in 

 length; D. VII 12; A. 12. Coast of Texas, entering 

 rivers. A single specimen in the Museum of Comp. 

 Zoology from the Ohio R., near Louisville (Putnam.) 



SUB - ORDER-A]^AC A 



(The Jugular Fishes.) 



FAMILY XCVII.-GADID^E. 



(The Cod Fishes.) 



Body elongated, covered with small smooth scales; 

 dorsal fins 1, 2 or 3, occupying most of the back; rays 

 of posterior part well developed; vertical fins never 

 entirely united (as in some related families); ventrals 

 jugular, usually several-rayed; gill openings wide; air 

 bladder usually present; no pseudobranchiag; pyloric 

 cceca usually in large numbers (30 or more in Lota). 

 Genera about twenty-five; species about seventy. An 

 important family, found chiefly in the northern seas; a 

 single genus inhabiting the lakes and larger streams of 

 the northern parts of Europe and America. 



* Chin with a barbel ; dorsals 2 ; anal single ; teeth villiform. 



LOTA, 1. 



/. LOTA, Cuvier. LINGS. 



1. L. lacustris, (Walb.) Gill. LING. BURBOT. LAKE 

 LAWYER. EEL-POUT. LAKE CUSK. Dark olive, thickly 

 marbled with blackish; yellowish or dusky beneath; head 

 broad, depressed; body sub-cylindrical in front, com- 

 pressed behind; upper jaw (usually) longest; D. 13 76; 

 A. 08; V. 7; length 1 to 2 feet. Great Lakes and 

 streams of New England, north to the Arctic Circle, 

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