DORSE. 



151 



SUBBEACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



GAD I DM. 



THE DORSE, 



OR VARIABLE COD. 



Morrhua callarias, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 332. 



,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 191. 



WILLUGHBY, p. 172, L. l,fig. 1. 



Gadus ,, LINN^US. BLOCH, pt. ii. pi. 63. 



BERKENHOUT, Syn. edit. 1795, p. 67, sp. 2. 



Variable Cod, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 239. 



THE authority upon which this species was originally 

 introduced into the catalogue of British fishes seems now to 

 be questionable. Neither Berkenhout nor the naturalists 

 who have followed him, in including the name of it, appear to 

 have seen any British example ; and Dr. Fleming, who from 

 his northern locality was the most likely to have seen speci- 

 mens, mentions it only on the authority of others, and does 

 not number it in his series of species. 



It appears to be a fish well known in the Baltic, and fre- 

 quently called the Baltic Cod. It is included by Professor 

 Nilsson in his Pishes of Scandinavia, and seems to be fully 

 entitled to one of its names, that of Variable Cod, four 



