Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America, 2543 



teeth subequal, large, in a cardiform band in upper jaw; in a single series 

 on lower jaw and on vomer; occiput carinated; a ridge extending back- 

 ward from each orbit; eye very large, length of snout, 4 in head. Ante- 

 rior rays of first dorsal elevated, length of head, the fin pointed, higher 

 than second and third dorsals ; caudal lunate ; vent below front of second 

 dorsal. The skull in this species is more depressed than in Gadus callarias, 

 broader, and thinner in texture; occipital crest exceedingly high, much 

 higher than in Gadus, the wing-like projections at its base anteriorly 

 spreading widely, raised above the surface of the skull. Dark gray 

 above, whitish below; lateral line black; a large dark blotch above the 

 pectorals; dorsals and caudal dusky. North Atlantic, 011 both coasts, 

 south to France and North Carolina ; in deeper water to Cape Hatteras ; 

 an important food-fish, reaching a considerable size. (Eu.) (cuglefinus, 

 an old name of the haddock, from the French Aiglefin or Aigrefin, accord- 

 ing to Bellon; perhaps from aigrefaim, extremely hungry, voracious.) 



Gadus ceglefinus, LINNJEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 251, 1758, seas of Europe, after Gadus, etc., 

 cauda biloba, of the Fauna Suecica ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 803^ 1883. 



Morrhua ceglefinus, FLEMING, British Animals, 191, 1828. 



Morrhua punctatus, FLEMING, British Animals, 192, 1828. 



Melanogrammus ceglefinus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 280; ibid. 1863, 237; GOODE 

 & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 354, 1896. 



JEglefinus Unncei, MALM, Gotheborgs och Bohuslans Fauna, 481, 1877. 



983. LEPIDION, Swainson 



Lepidion* SWAINSON, Nat. Hist, Class'n Anim., 1, 318, 1838, and n, 300, 1839 (lepidion). 

 Haloporphyrus, GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., IV, 358, 1862 (lepidion). 



Body elongate, covered with small scales; head not greatly depressed, 

 higher than broad; the snout subconical, obtusely rounded; tail tapering 

 behind; jaws with bands of villiform teeth; a roundish patch of teeth on 

 vomer; no teeth on palatines; chin with a barbel; branchiostegals 7. 

 Caudal fin separate ; 2 dorsal fins and 1 anal ; the first dorsal short ; ventrals 

 narrow, of 6 rays. Deep waters. The American species distinguished from 

 the Lepidion lepidion (Risso), of the Mediterranean, by its non-filamen- 

 tous first dorsal. (XErtidior, diminutive of k7Ci$, scale: small-scaled.) 



2913. LEPIDION VERECUNDUM, Jordan & Cramer. 



Head 3 ; depth 4. D. VIII-40 ; A. 37 ; V. apparently 4 (some rays broken 

 on each side); scales about 75, not to be exactly counted. Body robust, 

 compressed, tapering from the large head to the very slender, attenuate 

 tail, which is not so broad as pupil; head large, not greatly compressed, 

 not keeled above, its sides scaly ; lower jaw with some scales; interorbital 

 space depressed, 5f in head; eye very large (in young), 2 in head; snout 

 short, depressed, not pointed, and with lateral keel, 5| in head; preorbital 

 very narrow ; mouth rather large, oblique, the maxillary reaching to below 

 front of pupil, 2f in head; lower jaw slightly longer, its tip with a stiffish 

 pointed projection representing the barbel; teeth small, in bands, a few 



* Lepidion is sufficiently distinct from Lepidia, Savigny, 1817. 



