Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2555 



Atlantic const of United States, southward in water of moderate depth; 

 not common. Here described from a specimen, 17 inches in length, from 

 Charleston, South Carolina. (Named for R. Edward Earll, then assistant 

 to the United States Fish Commission.) 



Phycis earlli, BEAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mua., m, 1880, 69, Charleston, S. C. (Coll. R. E. Earll. 

 Type, Nos. 25207, 25208, ami 25209) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 798, 1883. 



Subgenus EMPHYCUS, Jordan & Evermann. 

 2928. TJROPHYCIS TENUIS (Mitchill). 



(CODLING; WHITE HAKE; SQUIRREL-HAKE.) 



Head 4; depth 5^. D. 9-57; A. 48; scales 138. Snout longer than eye, 

 narrower and more pointed than in P. chuss. Eye large, usually wider 

 than interorbital space; maxillary reaching beyond pupil. Filamentous 

 dorsal ray about f length of head ; ventral fins about reaching vent. 

 Scales very small. Brownish, lighter and yellowish below ; tins very dark. 

 Banks of Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras; abundant northward in rather 

 deep water, reaching a depth of 304 fathoms. The species resembles 

 Pliycis chuss, differing chiefly in the smaller scales, (tennis, slender.) 



Gadus tennis, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y. 1815, 372, New York. 



Phycis dekayi, KAUP, Archiv Natur. 1858, 89, North America. 



U'hycis rostratus, GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mug., iv, 353, 1862, no locality ; D. 9-59 to 62; A. 



49 to 50 ; scales ca. 150 ; ventrals immaculate, reaching front of anal. 

 Phycis tennis, DE KAY, S. Y. Fauna : Fishes, 293, 1842 ; GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila, 1863, 



238 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 799, 1883 ; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 



359, fig. 312, 1896. 



2929. UROPHYCIS CHUSS (Walbaum). 



(CODLING; SQUIRREL-HAKE.) 







Head 41; depth 5. D. 9-57; A. 50; scales 110. Body rather slender; 

 head depressed; eye large, about equal to interorbital width ; maxillary 

 reaching posterior margin of pupil; filamentous dorsal ray about f length 

 of body, when perfect ; pectorals | length of head ; ventral fins extending 

 beyond the vent; scales comparatively large. Brownish above, sides 

 lighter and tinged with yellowish; thickly punctulate with darker; be- 

 low pale; inside of mouth white; vertical fins somewhat dusky; anal fin 

 margined with pale; lateral line not dark. Atlantic coast, from Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence to Virginia; common northward; reaching a depth of 300 

 fathoms, (chuss, a vernacular name now obsolete, apparently derived 

 from cusk.) 



Chuss, SCHOPF, Schrift. ISTaturf. Frennde, Berlin, vm, 1780, 143, New York. 



Blennius chuss, WALBAUM, Artedi Pise., 186, 1792; after SCHOPF. 



Enchelyopus americanus, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 53, 1801; after SCHOPF. 



Gadus longipes, MITCHILL, Tnms. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., 1, 372, pi. 1, fig. 4, 1815, New York. 



Phycis marginatus, RAFINESQUE, Amer. Month. Mag., Jan., 1818, 205, Point Judith, Rhode 



Island. D. 10-60; A. 40; ventral reaching anal; tail black-edged. 

 Phycis americanus, STORER, Kept. Fish. Mass., 138, 1839 ; GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 353, 1862. 

 Phycis chuss, GILL, Proc. Ac. Xat. Sci. Phila. 1863,237; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 799, 



1883; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 359, fig. 311, 1896. 



