Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2561 



Onos cimbrius, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 349; GOODK & BEAN, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., xi, 1879 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 797, 1883; GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., x, No. 5, 217, 1883. 



Khinonemus cimbrius, JORDAN, Cat. Fish N. A., 128, 1885; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthy- 

 ology, 384, fig. 328, 1896. 



Enchelyopus cimbricus (misprint for cimbrius), BLOCH &. SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ich., 50, pi. 9, 

 1801. 



994. BROSME (Cuvier) Oken. 



(CUSKS.) 



Les Brosmes, CUVIER, Regne Animal, Ed. I, vol. 2, 216, 1817 (brosme). 



Brosme, OKEN, Isis, 1817, 1182 ; after CUVIER. 



Brosmius, CUVIER, Regne Animal Ed. 2, vol. n, 334, 1829 (brosme). 



Body moderately elongate, covered with very small scales. Mouth rather 

 large, with teeth in the jaws, vomer, and palatines, some of those on the 

 voiner and palatines enlarged; chin with a barbel; branchiostegals 7. 

 Dorsal tin single, continuous, not elevated, not notched ; anal fin similar, 

 but shorter; caudal tin rounded; ventral fin several-rayed. Northern 

 seas. (From the Danish vernacular name, brosme.) 



2937. BROSME BROSME (Miiller). 



(CUSK.) 



D. 98; A. 71; P. 24; V. 5. Body cylindrical, posteriorly compressed; 

 head flattened above. Mouth large, oblique, maxillary reaching beyond 

 orbit; lower jaw included; several rows of sharp teeth on jaws, 

 vomer, and palatines ; barbel about 5 in head ; interorbital greater than 

 the diameter of eye. Origin of dorsal above anterior half of pectoral; 

 pectoral round, 2 in head; caudal rounded behind. Brownish above, the 

 sides yellowish, sometimes mottled with brown ; young uniform dark 

 slate color, or with transverse yellow bands; vertical fins bordered with 

 blackish, and with a white edge. (Storer. ) North Atlantic, south to Cape 

 Cod and Denmark; rare southward on our coasts, (brosme, a Danish 

 name.) 

 Oadus brosme, MULLER, Prodr. Zool. Dan., 41, 1776, Denmark; FABRICIUS Fauna Groan- 



landica, 140, 1780. 



Gadus lubb, EUPHRASEN, Vet. Akad. Handl. 1794, 223, tah. 8. 



Gadus torsk, BONNATERRE, Encycl. Meth., 51, 1788, Sondmore, Norway; after Strom. 

 Brosmius vulgaris, FLEMING, British Anim., 194, 1828. 

 Brosmius flavesny, LE SUEUR, M6m. Mus., V, 1819, 158, Banks of Newfoundland; chin 



with 2 barbels ; lower jaw longest. 



Brosmius flavescens, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 369,1862; STORER, Hist. Fish. Mass., 368, 1867. 

 Enchelyopus brosme, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 51, 1801. 

 Brosmius brosme, GUNTHEH Cat., iv, 369, 1862; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 802, 1883; 



GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 385, fig. 329, 1896. 

 Blennius torsk, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., u, 508, 1800. 



Family CCXV. MACROURID^E. 



(THE GRENADIERS.) 



Body elongate, tapering into a very long compressed tail, which ends in 

 'a point; scales moderate, usually keeled or spinons, sometimes smooth. 

 Suborbital bones enlarged, sometimes cavernous. Teeth villiform or cardi- 



