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SAIDA. 



Gadus Saida. G. ccerulescens, dorso fusco, abdomine aibido, 

 pimiarum ventralium radio secundo in setam longam tcrm 'mato. 



Blueish Gadus, with brown back, white abdomen, and the 

 second ray of the ventral fins terminating in a long bristle. 



Gadus Saida. Lepechin. nov. Comm. Petrop. 18.^.512. Lin, 

 Syst.Nat. Gmelp. 1166. 



Described by Lepechin. Native of the white 

 sea: length about eight inches: colour blueish, 

 with dusky back, and white abdomen ; head com- 

 pressed on the fore-part, but more round behind, 

 and marked on the top with a black spot : mandibles 

 furnished with sharp, curved, setaceous teeth which 

 are barbed backwards : upper jaw rather obtuse > 

 lower longer and sharper: palate armed with a 

 double row of teeth, and on each side the entrance 

 into the throat is a rough or denticulated bone : 

 eyes large, with whitish pupil and blueish iris : gill- 

 covers silvery, speckled with black, and composed 

 of three laminae, of which the lowest is lunated, the 

 next elliptic, and the third triangular andbicuspidate: 

 back convex, slightly furrowed on the fore-part, and 

 marked by a few confluent blackish specks : lateral 

 line strait, nearest the back : dorsal fins triangular, 

 brown, with whitish rays: anal oblong-triangular, 

 with the fore-part of the base dusky-blue : ventral 

 whitish at the base: tail forked. This species is 

 edible, but of a dry or juiceless nature. 



