592 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



Barbus fluviatilis, Cuv. The Barbel. 



Leuciscus dobula, L. A doubtful species. 



Cobites fossilis, L. 



And they have five species in the Finland waters un- 

 known in other parts of Scandinavia 



Liparis lineatus, Lepech. From the coast of Lapmark. 



Anarrhichas pantherinus, Pall. Probably only a variety 

 of the common wolf fish. 



Gadus havaga, Pall. "> Small species of cod peculiar to 



6r. saida, Lepech. J the White Sea. The first is easily 

 distinguished from the young of the common cod, which it 

 otherwise resembles, on account of its peculiar transverse 

 processes. 



Platessa divinensis, Lilj. White Sea. 



Old Artedi, in his description of the Swedish fish, in 

 1 738, appears to have known only fifty-eight species ; but 

 he includes the whale. And Linnaeus, in his " Fauna 

 Suecica," notices eighty-five species. Old Jonas Kolding, 

 who, wrote on the Danish fishes in 1594, appears to have 

 known only thirty-five species in the Danish waters. 



That the Finland fish fauna should be so poor in the num- 

 ber,4| species, as compared with that of Sweden and Norway, 

 maj^oe accounted for by the fact, not only that it has a much 

 less extent of coast, but that its principal seas, the Bothnia 

 and the White Sea, are far less rich in even the common 

 species of sea-fish, than either the Sound, the Cattegat, or 

 the North Sea. 



THE END. 



HABKILD, PJRIMEK, LOHDOX. 



