Class IV. COMMON COD FISH. 231 



GENUS XXV. COD FISH. 



Head smooth. 



Rays branchiostegous seven, or eight, slender. 

 Body oblong; scales deciduous. 

 Fins covered with a common skin. 

 Fins ventral, slender, and ending in a point. 

 Teeth in the jaws ; and in the palate, a series 

 of minute teeth closely set together. 



* With three dorsal fins ; the chin bearded. 



LaMome. Be Ion, 121. Gadus Morhua. Lin. Syst. 1. Common. 



Molva. RondeL 280. 436. Gm. Lin. 1162. Gro- 



Molva sive morhua altera. nov. Zooph. No. 319. 



Gesnerpisc. 88. Arct. Zool. Int. ccciii. 



Kablauw. Schonevelde, 18. Cabblia. Faun. Suec. No. 398. 



Asellus major vulgaris. Wit. La Morue. Duhamel Tr. des 



Ichth. 165. Pesches, ii. 37. tab. 4 — 12 



Cod-fish, or Keeling. Rail — 19. 



Syn. pise. 53. La Morue. Bloeh ichth. ii. 



Gadus dorso tripterygio, ore 131. tab. 66. 



cirrato, cauda aequali fere De la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



cum radio primo spinoso. sons, ii. 369. 



Arted. Synon. 35. 



JL HIS fish is found only in the northern part 

 of the world; it is, as Rondeletkis calls it, an 



