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283. Melanogrammus aeglefinus Linnaeus. ((Plate IX, figures 95 and 96). 

 Haddock. 



Marine. 



Both coasts of north Atlantic: on the American side ranging from coast of Labrador south- 

 ward, and embracing Gulf of St. Lawrence, Maritime Provinces, and Newfoundland, 

 to coast of North Carolina; and on the European side from Iceland and "the Scandi- 

 navian coast to East Finmark and Varanger Fjord" (Goode, 1888) southward to the 

 coast of France: "coast of Great Britain, from extreme north to the Land's End" 

 and "all round the shores of Ireland" (Yarrell, 1859). 



284. Antimora viola Goode and Bean. 

 Violet Antimora. 



Bathybial. 



"Fishing Banks off the coast" of Nova Scotia (Jones, 1879, as Haloporphyrus viola): Banks 

 of Newfoundland, and southward. 



285. Antimora microlepis Bean. 

 Small-scaled Antimora. 

 Bathybial. 



Off Queen Charlotte Islands: also recorded from coast of California and Bering Sea. 



286. Lota maculosa* Le Sueur. (Plate IX, figure 97). 

 Fresh-water Ling: Burbot. 



Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



Well nigh cosmopolitan in northern North America: recorded from Labrador, and ranging 

 from New Brunswick westward to British Columbia; and from the Arctic regions south- 

 ward to northern States of the Union. 



287. Molva molva Linnaeus. 

 Ling. 



Marine. 



Reputed to have been recorded off Newfoundland:! "common on the northern coasts of 

 Europe, Iceland, and Greenland" (Gunther, 1880, as M. vulgaris): in the British Is- 

 lands — "among the Western Islands, in the Orkneys, and on the Yorkshire coast; in 

 Cornwall, and the Scilly Islands; and the species may be traced nearly all round the 

 Irish coast" (Yarrell, 1859, as Lota molva): ranges "from Spitzbergen to the Gulf of 



Gascony. . most abundant along the coast of northern Europe, especially in 



the German Ocean and off Norway" (Jordan and Evermann). 



*"The American Burbot is very close to the common species of northern Europe and Asia, Lota lota and 



may prove wholly identical with the latter." Jordan and Evermann. Gunther does not distinguish the two, for 

 he says: — "It is locally distributed in Central and Northern Europe and North America." If the two are to be 

 regarded as forms of one and the same species then the geographical range of the fresh water ling is in all probability 

 nearly co-extensive with the fresh waters of the northern part of the northern hemisphere. 



•(•"It is said to have been found in deep water off Newfoundland, but we have been unable to find the specific 

 record." Jordan and Evermann. 



