GADIDiE. 



BROTULIN^. 



SOI 



of the pectorals, and placed in a depression; upper 

 jaw with two or four cirri ; lower with one. 

 M. tricirrata. Bl. 165. 



3. SUBFAM. PHYCIN^. 



Head broad, depressed ; ventral fins with the posterior 

 rays obsolete, or altogether wanting ; dorsal fins two. 



Raniceps Cuv. Head greatly depressed and very large ; 

 first dorsal fin minute, formed as in Motella ; the 

 la^t ray lengthened ; ventral fins very small, of six 

 rays ; the two first lengthened, and ending in short 

 filaments ; the rest nearly obsolete ; caudal wedge- 

 shaped. 



R. trifurcatus Cuv. Yarrell, ii. p. 204. 



Physis Artedi. Dorsal fins two, the first triangular, 

 and higher than the second ; head moderately large, 

 depressed ; caudal rounded ; ventral fins each com- 

 posed of a single cirriform ray unequally forked. 



P. furcatus. Yarr. ii. 201 . 

 longipennis. Sw. App. 



Siculus. Sw. App. (^^. 94.) 

 (See Vol. I. p. 322.) 



4. SuBFAM. BROSMIN^. 

 Dorsal fin one, long. 



Brosmius Cuv. General structure of Lota, but with 

 one dorsal fin commencing above the pectoral, and 

 near double the length of the anal ; caudal rounded ; 

 ventral very small, thick, and fleshy. 



B. Scotica. Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. pi. 37. 



5. SuBFAM. BROTULIN^. 

 Body anguilliform ; dorsal fin one, united to the caudal 

 and the anal. 



