17a COMMON COD FISH. Class IV. 



XIX, Head fmooth. 



COP FISH. ^ n ^ u T . a 



oeven ilender brancaialTegous raySe 



Body oblong ; fcales deciduous. 



All the fins covered with a common fkin. 



Ventral fins flender, and ending in a point. 



Teeth in the jaws; and in the palate, a feries of 



minute teeth clofely (ht together. 



With three dorfal fins; the chin bearc^ed. 



75. CoMiiOK. La Morue, Be/o/i, 121. fy^- P^A- SI- 



Molva. Rondel. 2S0. Gadus dorfo tripten'gio, ore 



Molva five morhua altera. cirrato, cauda aequali fer-e 



Gefner fife. 88. cum radio primo fpinofo. 



Kablauw. Schone'veUe^ 18. Arted.Jyr.cn, 35. 



Alellus major vulgaris. Wil. Gadus morhua. Z/«._/^_/?. 436. 



Icth. 165. Gronou. Zocph. No. 319. 



Cod-fiili, or Keeling. Raii Cabblia. /'«z^;?.5'a^<:. No. 398. 



THIS filh is found only in the northern pare 

 of the world ; it is, as Rondeletius calls it, 

 an ocean fifh, and never met with in the Mediter<- 

 ranean (^2i*. It affefls cold climates, and feems 

 confined between the latitudes 66 and 50 : what 

 are caught north and fouth of thofe degrees being 



*' Nocie (fsys Captain Ar7nfirong in his hiftory q^ Miner ca) 

 efths Ajdli or cdd fiili kind, frequent oar fliores. /. 163. 



either 



