Class IV. COMMON COD FISH. 



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GENUS XXV. COD FISH. 



Head smooth. 



Rays branchiostegous seven, or eight, slender. 

 Body oblong; scales deciduous. 

 Fins covered with a common skin. 

 Fins ventral, slender, and ending in a point. 

 Teeth in the jaws ; and in the palate, a series 

 of minute teeth closely set together. 



* With three dorsal fins ; the chin bearded. 



La Morue. Belon, 121. 



Molva. Rondel. 280. 



Molva sive morhua altera. 



Gesner pise. 88. 

 Kablauw. Schonevelde, 18. 

 Asellus major vulgaris.' Wil. 



Ichili. 165. 

 Cod-fish, or Keeling. Raii 



Syn. pise. 53. 

 Gadus dorso tripterygio, ore 



cirrato, cauda aequali fere 



cum radio primo spinoso. 



Arted. Synon. 35. 



Gadus Morhua. Lin. Syst. 

 436. Gm. Lin. 1 162. Gro- 

 ?iov. Zooph. No. 319. 



Arct. Zool. Inf. ccciii. 



Cabblia. Faun. Suec. No. 398. 



La I\Iorue. Duhamel Tr. des 

 Pesches, ii. 37. tab. 4 — 12 



— 1§- 



La Morue. Bloeh ichth. ii. 



131. tab. 66. 

 De la Cepede Hist, des Pois~ 



sons, ii. 369. 



1. Common. 



X HIS fish is found only in the northern part 

 of the world; it is, as Rondcletius calls it, an 



