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Genus III. — Phycis, Block, Schneider. 



Enchelyopus, Bl. Schneider. Hypsiftera, Giintlier. 



Branchiostegals seven : pseudohranchim absent. Body ohlong or moderately 

 elongated. A barbel on the chin. Small teeth on the jaws and vomer, none on the 

 palatine bones or tongue. Two dorsal fins and a single anal : caudal distinct : 

 ventral in the form, of a single long and divided ray. Scales small. Ooecal 

 appendages in moderate numbers. 



Genus Rypsiptera, Giinther (Catal. ii, p. 386) was first described " as a most 

 interesting addition " to the Scombroids : subsequently (Catal. iv, p. 362) as an 

 immature Gadoid : while Liitken observes that it is the young of a Phycis. 



Geographical distribution. — Atlantic Ocean in the northern hemispheres of 

 Europe and America, also German Ocean and extending into the Mediterranean. 



1, Phycis blennoides, Plate LXXXV, fig. 2. 



Phycis, Rondel, vi, c. 10, p. 106 ; Gesner, pp. 718, 845 ; Aldrov. i, c. 8, p. 43 ; 

 Jonston, i, tit. 2, c. i, art. 6, t. xiv, no. 4 (not Salv.). Forked hake, Pennant, Brit. 

 Zool. (Ed. 1776) iii, p. 193, pi. xxx, f. 82 (Ed. 1812) iii, p. 259, pi. xxxv. Greater 

 forked heard. Couch, Linn. Trans, xi, p. 75, and Pish. Brit. Isles. 



Barbus major Gornubiensis, Jago in B-ay, Syn. p. 163, f. 7. 



Gadus blennoides, Briin. Ich. Mass. p. 24. 



Merlu barbu, Duhamel, Peches, ii, p. 147, pi. xxv, f. 4. 



Gadus bifurcus, Walb. Art. iii, p. 137. 



Gadus albidus, Gmel. Linn. p. 1171. 



Phycis tinea, Bl. Schn. p. 56, t. xi. 



Phycis blennoides, Bl. Schn. p. 56 ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1165 ; Bonnat. Atl. Ich. 

 p. 48, pi. Ixxxvii, f. 363 ; Risso, Eur. Merid. iii, p. 222 ; Cuv. Regne Anim. ; 

 Giinther, Catal. iv, p. 351 ; Steind. Ich. Span. u. Port. 1868, p. 42 ; Canest. 

 Faun. Ital. p. 156 ; CoUett, Norges Piske, p. 114, and Christ. Vid. Sels. Forh. 

 1879, i, p. &7 ; Winther, Ich. Dan. Mar. p. 32 ; Moreau, Poiss. France, iii, p. 264 ; 

 Giglioli, Peso. Ital. p. 36. 



Blennius gadoides, Lacep. ii, pp. 458, 484 ; Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 136. 



Blennius phycis, Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 93; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 172. 



Phycis fwrcatus, Flem. Brit. An. p. 193 ; Kroyer, Dan. Fiske. ii, p. 2l4, c. fig. ; 

 Jenyns, Man. p. 452 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 1) ii, p. 201, c. fig. (Ed. 2) ii, p. 289 

 (Ed. 3) i, p. 595 ; Templeton, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837 (2) i, p. 411 ; Swainson, 

 Fishes, ii, p. 301, c. fig. ; J. Blake-Knox, Zool. Dec. 1866, p. 508 ; Thompson, 

 Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 187. 



Phycis bifurcus, White, Catal. p. 96. 



Ghxater fork-beard and Blennoid fork-beard, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iii, pp. 

 125-128, pi. cliii, cliv. 



B. vii, D. 9-10/54-62, P. 15, V. 1, A. 54-58, C. 22, L. 1. 112, Coec. pyl. 26. 



Length of head 4 to 4f , of caudal fin 8 to 9^, height of body 4^\ to 5^ in the 

 total length. Eye — diameters 3| to 4 in the length of the head, l^ to 2 diameters 

 from the end of the snout, and one apart. Interorbital space nearly flat. Snout 

 obtusely rounded : mouth nearly horizontal : upper jaw overlapping the lower : 

 the maxilla reaches to beneath the middle or even hind edge of the eye. A barbel 

 as long as the eye below the symphysis of the mandible. Nostrils patent. Gill- 

 rakers short, about 8 in number along the outer branch of the upper lamina. 

 rpeeth — villiform in the jaws and in an angular band on the vomer : none on the 

 palatines or tongue. Fin — the first dorsal commences above the first third of 

 the pectoral, its third or fourth rays elongated : the second dorsal not confiuent 

 with the caudal, its rays simply branched. Pectoral somewhat pointed, and as 

 long as the head behind the middle of the orbit. Caudal rounded or square at 

 its posterior extremity. Ventral consisting of a single ray which branches into 



