380 Storer on the 
The Caudal fin in length less than one third its 
height. 
The fin rays are as follows: D. 74; P. 20; A. 
46; C. 16. 
Fauny XIII. 
PECTORALES PEDICULATI. 
Loruivs. Lin. 
Generic characters. Head very large, depressed ; 
body slender, smooth, without scales ; two dorsal fins 
separated ; pectoral fins broad and thick, somewhat 
resembling feet ; ventral fins small, placed consider- 
ably before the pectorals ; teeth differing in size, nu- 
merous, conical, sharp, curving backwards ; tongue 
broad ; branchial cavities large, with only a small 
opening behind the pectoral fins ; branchiostegous 
rays 6. 
L. piscatorius. Lin. The Angler. Frog Fish. 
Sea Devil. Goose Fish. Wide Gab. 
Pennant’s British Zoology, vol. iii. 105, et fig. 
Shaw’s Zool. vol. ii. 379, et fig. 
Strack’s Plates, x. de 
Trans. Lit. et Philosoph. Soc. N. Y. vol. i. 464. 
Me Murtrie's Cuv. vol. ii. 184. 
Yarrell’s British Fishes, i. 269, et fig. 
Specimens of this species are yearly taken in Mas- 
sachusetts Bay by our cod fishers ; with whom, it is 
generally known as the “ Goose fish,” although 
sometimes incorrectly called the “ Monk fish.” 
