756 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. 



Family OPHIDIIDiE. 



Body compressed, eel shaped, with small scales in oblique series ; 

 head large ; gill openings wide ; pseudobranch rudimentary ; caudal 

 isocercal, confluent, with long, non-spined vertical fins. 



OPHIDIUM, L. 

 marginatum. Be K. 



Scales not imbricated ; head nearly naked ; teeth on vomer 

 and palatines blunt, on jaws fixed, for the outer series ; color 

 brownish ; vertical fins margined with black ; air-bladder short, 

 with foramen below. 



"Rare. Prof. Baird reports a specimen taken at Beesley's 

 Point." 



Family GADIDiE. 



Codfishes. 



Body elongated, compressed behind ; tail usually isocercal ; scales 

 cycloid, small ; gill openings very wide ; no spines ; dorsal very long, 

 often divided ; ventrals jugular ; no psendobranchs. 



ONOS, Risso (Ayres). 

 (Motella. Bhinonemus.) 

 O. oimbrius, L. [M. caudacuta.) Four-bearded Rockling. 



Brownish ; posterior part of vertical fins abruptly black, also 

 inside of mouth ; snout high ; mouth large, four barbels ; lateral 

 line interrupted at intervals ; fijrst ray of dorsal free and as long 

 as head ; no canines ; dorsals two. Dorsal rays, 50 ; anal rays, 

 43; ventral rays, 5; length, 12 inches. North Atlantic. 



PHYOIS. Bl. & Schn. 



P. regius, Walb. (Blmnius, punctaius, Enchelyopm, regalis, Vrophycis, 

 Gill.) Spotted Codling. 



Brownish and yellow ; lateral line brown, with white spots ; 

 inside of mouth white ; first dorsal black, edged with white ; 



