Class IV. COMMON WOLF FISH. 



201 



GENUS XVII. WOLF FISH. 



Head blunt. 



Body long. 



Fin dorsal, one, reaching almost from the head 



to the tail. 

 Teeth fore, conic and large ; grinders flat 



and round. 

 Rays branchiostegous, six. 



Anarrhicas. Gesner Paralip.4. 

 Lupus marinus. Caii opusc. 



113. 

 Lupus marinus nostras, quern 



incolae Wolff. Schonevelde, 



45. tab. 5. 

 Cat-Fish. Sib. Scot. iii. 25. 



tab. 16. 

 Wolf Fish, Sea Wolf, or 



Woof. Wil. Ichth. 130. 



Rait Syn. pise. 40. 

 Steen-bider. Pontop. Norway, 



ii. 151. 



Kigutilik i. e. dentatus. 1. COMMON. 



Crantz's Greenl. i. 96. 

 Anarhichas. Arted. Synon. 3g. 

 Anarhichas Lupus. Lin. Syst. 



430. Gm. Lin. 1 142. 

 A. strigosus ib. 1144. 

 Zee Wolf. Gronov. Mus. No. 



44. Zooph. No. 400. 

 Le Loup marin. Block ichth. 



iii. 15. tab. 74. 

 L'Anarique Loup. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons, ii. 



300. 



X HIS fish seems to be confined to the north- Place. 

 era parts of the globe. We find it in the seas 

 of Greenland, in those of Iceland* and Norway, 



* Where it is called Steinbeisser. Schonevelde, 45. 



