Class IV. GREEN COD FISH. 253 



Gadus virens. G. dorso vires- Sey, Norvegis. Ascan. icon. 8. Green. 



cente, cauda bifurca. Gm. xxiii. 



Lin. 1166. Faun. Suec. Gron. act. ups. 1742. p. go. 



30g. Le Gade Sey. De la Cepede 

 Faun. Groenl. 148. Hist, des Poissons. ii. 421. 



Mull, prodr. Zool. dan. 43. 



JL HE green Cod fish is beardless, smooth, of a Descrif- 

 dusky green on the back, and silvery in every 

 other part ; the jaws are of equal length ; the 

 side line strait ; the tail forked. 



I was favored by Sir John Cullum, Bart, with 

 the notice of this species being British ; he ob- 

 served numbers of them, which had been taken 

 in the German ocean; none exceeded seven 

 inches in length : Linnaus does not attribute to 

 them a greater size than that of the Perch. 



