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Gadus saida, LEPECHIN, Nov. Comin. Ac. Sci. Petrop. 1774, 512, White Sea; PALLAS, 

 Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat., in, 199, 1811 ; GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 337, 1862 ; COLLETT, Norske Nord- 

 Havs Exped , 126, 1880; JORDAN &. GILBERT. Synopsis, 307, 1883. 



Merlangus polaris, SABINE, Supp. Parry's Voyage, ccxi, 1824, Baffins Bay; RICHARDSON, 

 Last Arctic Voyage, 27, 1824. 



Gadus fabricii, RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Amer., in, 245,1836, northern bays of Green- 

 land; after Gadus ceglifinus of Fabricius. 



Gadus agilis, REINHARDT, Danske Vid. Selsk. Af h., vn, 126, 1838, Greenland. 



Gadus glacialis, PETERS, Nord Pol.Expd., u, 172, 1874. 



Pollachius polaris, GILL, Cat. Fish. East Coast 1ST. A., 218, 1861. 



Bnreogadus polaris, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 233. 



Boreogadus saida, BEAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 108, 1879; SCOFIELD, in Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Rept. Fur Seal Invest., 1898. 



977. POLLACHIUS, Nilsson. 

 (POLLACKS.) 



Pollachius. NILSSON, in Bonaparte, Catalogo Metodico Pesci Europ.. 45, 1846 (pollachius) . 



Body rather elongate, covered with minute scales ; mouth moderate or 

 large, the lower jaw projecting; barbel very small or obsolete; villiform 

 teeth on vomer, none on palatines; teeth iii jaws equal or the outer 

 slightly enlarged; gill membranes more or less united; subopercle and 

 postclavicle not enlarged and not ivory-like; dorsal fins 3; anal 2; caudal 

 lunate; vent under first dorsal. Large fishes of the northern seas. 

 (Polog or Pollack, the English vernacular name, latinized as Pollacliius, 

 as though derived from 7toA.haxf?> niany fashioned.) 



2903. POLLACHIUS VIRENS (Linnaeus). 



(POLLACK; COAL-FISH ; GREEN COD.) 



Head 4; depth 4. D. 13-22-20; A. 25-20; scales about 150; vertebrae 54. 

 Body rather elongate, compressed; snout sharp and conic; mouth rather 

 small, oblique; maxillary reaching beyond front of orbit; lower jaw 

 slightly the longer; teeth in the upper jaw nearly equal, the outer series 

 not being especially enlarged; barbel rudimentary or obsolete; gill mem- 

 branes considerably united, free from isthmus; vent under first dorsal; 

 caudal fin lunate; pectorals short, scarcely reaching anal; ventrals short, 

 their origin in front of base of pectoral a distance about equal to diam- 

 eter of eye. Greenish brown above ; sides and below somewhat silvery; 

 lateral line pale; fins mostly pale; sometimes a black spot in the axil. 

 North Atlantic; common northward on both coasts, south to Cape Cod 

 and France. (Eu.) (virens, green.) 



Gadus virens, LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 253, 1758, Seas of Europe ; after Gadus triptery- 

 gius imberbis of the Fauna Suecica ; GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 339; JORDAN & GILBERT, 

 Synopsis, 807, 1883. 



Gadus carbonarius, LINN^US, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 254, 1758, seas of Europe ; after Gadus 

 dorso tripterygius imberbi of ARTEDI. 



