308 ANACANTHINI. 



Genus V — Lota, Cuvier. 



Branchiostegals seven or eight : pseudobranchiai absent. Body elongated. A 

 barbel beloio the chin. Cardiform teeth on jaivs and vomer, none on the palatines or 

 tongue. Two dorsal fins and, a single anal: caudal distinct: ventral with six or 

 seven rays. Small scales over the body. 



Geographical distribution. — Fresh-water fishes inhabiting the temperate por- 

 tions of northern Europe and America. 



1. Lota vulgaris, Plate LXXXVII. 



Mustela, Pliny, Hist. Nat. ix, c. 16. Strinsias s. Botarissas, Belonhis, De. 

 Aquat. p. 302, etc. and Glarias Jluviatilis, 1. c. p. 304. Lota, Rondeletius, ii, 

 p. 164, and Barbota, p. 165. Botlatriai, triseus, Salviani, p. 213. Mustela 

 Jluviatilis, Gesner, p. 599, and ed. 1598, fol: 172b, c. fig. Quappen, Schonevelde, 

 p. 49. Lota Gallorum, Aldrovandns, v. c. 46, p. 648 ; Jonston, iii, tit. 3, c. 11, 

 p. 168, t. xxix, f. 10. Mustela Jluviatilis, Willughby, p. 125, t. H 3, f . 4 ; Ray, 

 Syn. Pise. pp. 67, 68. Gadus barbatus, Miiller, Prod. Zool. Dan. p. 41 ; Koel- 

 reuter, Nov. Com. Petroph. 19, p. 424. Gadus, sp. Artedi, Synon. p. 38, no. 13, 

 and Genera, p. 22, no. 10, and Silurus cirro in mento unico, Species, p. 107. 

 Butten, Marsigli, Danub. iv, p. 71, t. xxiv. Burbot, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (ed. 

 1776) iii, p. 199 (ed. 1812) iii, p. 265. Barbolt, Bowdich, British Fresh-water 

 Fishes, 1828, no. xxx. 



Gadus lota, Linn. Faun. Suec. 315 and Syst. Nat. p. 440 ; Bonn. Atl. Ich. 

 p. 49, pi. xxx, f. 110; Bloch, p. 177, t. lxx ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1172 ; Lacepede, ii, 

 p. 435 ; Donovan, British Fishes, iv, pi. xcii ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. iv, p. 154, pi. 

 xxiii, f 2 ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 91 ; Pallas, Zoogr. iii, p. 201 ; Hartmann, 

 Helvet. Ich. p. 50 ; Ekstrom, Yet. Akad. Handl. p. 43, and Fische Morko, p. 235 ; 

 Brandt and Rat. i, p. 52, t. vii, f. 2. 



LJnchelyopus lota, Bloch, Schn. p. 52 ; Gronov. ed. Gray, 1854, p. 101. 



Lota vulgaris, Cuv. Regne Anim. ; Jurine, Poiss. Lac. Leman, 1825, pi. ii ; 

 Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, iv, p. 580 ; Jenyns, Manual Brit. Vert. p. 448 ; Yarrell, 

 Brit. Fishes (Ed. 1) 1836, ii, p. 183, c. fig. (Ed. 2) ii, p. 267 (Ed. 3) i, p. 572 ; 

 Fries och Ekstrom, Skand. Fisk. p. 170, t. xli ; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Russ. 

 Merid. iii, p. 350 ; Kroyer, Dan. Fiske, ii, p. 169, c. fig. ; White, Catal. p. 93 ; 

 Giinther, Fische Neckar, p. 124, and Catal. iv, p. 359 ; Heckel and Kner, Suss. w. 

 fis. ost. Mon. p. 313 ; Blanchard, Poiss. Eau. dou. France, p. 272, c. fig. ; Schlegel, 

 Dieren Neder. p. 82, pi. viii, f . 1 ; Malm, Wiegm. Arch. 1864, p. 297 ; Steindachner, 

 Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien. 1866, p. 387 ; Collett, Norges Fiske, p. 115, and Christ. 

 Vid. Sels. Forh. 1879, i, p. 67 ; Houghton, British Fresh-water Fishes, p. 165, 

 c: fig. ; Day, Cotteswold Nat. Field Club, 1880, p. 221, c. fig. ; Moreau, Poiss. 

 France, iii, p. 256 ; Giglioli, Pesc. Ital. p. 37. 



Molva lota, Fleming, Brit. Anim. p. 192. 



Lota communis, Rapp, Fische Bodensees, p. 36. 



Burbolt, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iii, p. 93, pi. cxlvi. 



Synonymy of American examples. 



Gadus lota, Schopf, Schrift. Gesell. Nat. Freund. Berlin, viii, p. 141 ; Pennant, 

 Arctic Zool. Introd. p. exci. 



Gadus lacustris, Mitchell, Amer. Month. Mag. ii, p. 244. 



Lota maculosa, Leseur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. i, p. 83; Richardson, Fauna 

 Bor. -Amer. Fish, p. 248 ; Kirtland, Boston, Journ. Nat. Hist. 1842, iv, p. 24, 

 pi. iii, f . 1 ; De Kay, New York Fauna, Fish, p. 284, pi. Iii, f. 168 ; Agassiz, Lake 

 Superior, p. 325. 



Molva maculosa, and M. huntia, Leseur, Mem. Mus. v. 1819, pp. 151, 161, 

 pl. xvi. 



Lota compressa, Leseur, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. i, p. 84 ; Storer, Fish. Mass. 

 p. 134 ; De Kay, 1. c. p. 285, pl. Ixxviii, f. 244, 245. 



