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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
Fiskebac'kskil, who exhibited it for several days to 
the visitors at Lysekil", where it was afterwards pur- 
chased and sent to the Royal Museum by Dr. A. 
Stuxberg. 
According to Faber ( 1 . c.) the Opah is mentioned 
in the Edda under the name of Gudlax ( godlax = 
good Salmon) 6 , and in Iceland every part of the fish 
is in general use as a remedy for all kinds of diseases. 
The following Acanthopterygian Eleutherognates 
are distinguished from the preceding Lysipharyngii by 
several characters, which we have above endeavoured 
to express by the name of Anomalopteri. 
The Scandinavian Fauna contains the following 
families belonging to this division: 
A: Ventral fins independent, jugular. Spinous-rayed 
part of the dorsal lin or fins considerably shor- 
ter or with a smaller number of rays than the 
soft-rayed part. No anal papilla. Suborbital 
ring without any osseous connexion with the 
preoperculum : Trctchinomorphi. 
1: Gill-openings in front of the pectoral fins. 
a: Body compressed Fam. Tra chinidce. 
b: Head broad and flattened ,, Batrachidce. 
2 : Gill-openings behind or above the pectoral 
fins Fam. Lophiidce. 
B: Ventral fins independent, thoracic or jugular. 
Suborbital ring joined to the preoperculum by 
an osseous connexion. A prominent papilla 
often present at the vent. Body Cottiform or 
Perciform : Cottomorphi. 
1: Body with ordinary scales or naked or 
partly covered with plates. 
a: Spinous-rayed part of the dorsal lin longer 
(with more rays) than the soft-rayed 
part, or at least as long as it Fam. Scorpamidce. 
b: Spinous-rayed part of the dorsal fin 
shorter (with fewer rays) than the soft- 
rayed part. Fam. Cottidce. 
2: Body almost entirely covered with plates 
Fam. Agonidce. 
C: Ventral fins (when present) independent, ju- 
gular or thoracic. A prominent papilla some- 
times present at the vent. Spinous-rayed part 
of the dorsal fin (where it is hardened) longer 
(with more rays), or at least only slightly 
shorter, than the soft-rayed part behind the 
A narrhich a didos. 
11 (a 
On 
Gobiidce. 
Callionymidat. 
spinous rays. Suborbital ring usually with- 
out any osseous connexion with the prc- 
operculum. Body low and compressed, 
more or less taenoid: Blennomorplii. 
1: No molars on the jaws or palate. Fam. Blenniidce. 
2: Molars on the jaws and palate... 
D: Ventral fins generally united. A promi- 
nent papilla at the vent. Spinous-rayed 
part of the dorsal fin shorter than the soft- 
rayed, and with flexible spines, or wanting. 
Suborbital ring generally without any osse- 
ous connexion with the preoperculum. 
Body long and low or bulky : Gobiomorplii. 
1: The rays of the ventral fins maybe ex- 
ternally distinguished, but the fins are 
united in a funnel form Fam. 
2: Rays of the ventral fins distinguishable 
and the fins remote' from each other. Fam. 
3: Rays of the ventral fins indistinguishable 
in the sucking-disk formed by the union 
of these fins Fam. Cy clo pier idee. jAE 
4: Ventral fins remote from each other, but 
between them a sucking-disk. No spi- 
nous-rayed part in the dorsal fin. Fam. Gobiesocidce. 
E: V entral fins independent, much longer than 
the pectoral, and generally with more than 
five soft rays. Form of the body high and 
compressed: Cyttomorphi Fam. Zenidce. t 
F: V entral fins (where they exist) independent, 
much longer than the pectoral, and gene- 
rally with less or more than five soft rays. 
No anal fin. Body compressed and long, 
ribbon-slurped. Caudal fin irregular, raised 
upwards, or wanting: Tr acliy pter omorphi 
Fam. Tracliypteridce. 
G: Ventral fins independent, abdominal: Mu- 
giliformes Fam. Mugilidce. 
We give the first place among these fishes to a 
group of families, as a. type of which we may take the 
well-known and really formidable Weever. 
> 2.1 
“ A watering-place iu Bohuslan. Tr. 
h Aasen (Norsk Ordbog ) suspects, however, that by this word may be meant Guldlax (Gullax, Argentina Situs, according to Nilsson). 
