744 Opisthomi and Anacanthini 
tains the only fresh-water members of the group of Anacanthint, 
The European burbot, Lota lota, is common in the streams 
and lakes of northern Europe and Siberia. It is a bottom fish, 
coarse in flesh and rather tasteless, eaten sometimes when boiled 
and soaked in vinegar or made into salad. It is dark olive in 
color, thickly marbled with blackish. 
The American burbot, or lawyer (Lota maculosa), is very 
much like the European species. It is found from New Eng- 
land throughout the Great Lakes to the Yukon. It reaches a 
length of usually two or three feet and is little valued as food 
in the United States, but rises much in esteem farther north. 
The liver and roe are said to be delicious. In Siberia its skin 
is used instead of glass for windows. In Alaska, according to 
Dr. Dall, it reaches a length of six feet and a weight of sixty 
pounds. 
Fic. 657.—Burbot, Lota maculosa (Le Sueur). New York. 
The rocklings (Gatdropsarus and Enchelyopus) have the 
first dorsal composed of a band of fringes preceded by a single 
ray. The species are small and slender, abounding chiefly in the 
Mediterranean and the North Atlantic. The young have been 
Fie. 658 —Four-bearded Rockling, Enchelyopus cimbrius (Linneus). 
Nahant, Mass. 
called “‘mackerel-midges.”” Our commonest species is Enchely- 
opus cimbrius, found also in Great Britain. 
The cusk, or torsk, Brosme brosme, has a single dorsal fin 
