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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
tinuous, with 15 strong , spinous rays; anal fin with 3. 
the palatine bones, and the vomer. Brancliiostegal 
Thus defined, the genus Sebastes, originally es- 
tablished by Cuvier" with a wider extension, includes 
only one species, which belongs to the north of the 
Atlantic. Kroyee was the first/' to point out the re- ! 
markable way in which it propagates its species. It 
Supraorbital spines and the 
5 spines, operculum with two 
Eyes large. Dorsal fin con- 
intermaxillaries, 
Air-bladder present. 
is viviparous, the entire development of the egg pro- 
ceeding in the ovaries. This peculiarity extends, 
however, to the near relatives of this genus, the 
numerous species of the North Pacific genus Seba- 
stodes c . 
Genus SEBASTES. 
Body perfectly per ci form. Inter orbited space only slightly concave or quite level, 
ridges on the top of the head comparatively little developed. Preoperculum with 
spinous points. Scales of the body ctenoid, thickly covering even the maxillaries. 
Cardiform teeth on the lower jaw, the 
rays 7. Vertebrce 30 or 31. 
THE NORWAY HADDOCK (sw. kungsfisken). 
SEBASTES MARINUS. 
Plate IV, fig. 2 and Fig. 42. 
Colouring fiame-red, sometimes grayish or brownish red, on the belly paler and sometimes white, with or without 
large, irregular, brown spots on the gill-cover and the back. From 30 to 35 pores in the lateral line. 
Fig. 42. Norway Haddock [ Sebastes marinus ( norvegicusy] , found dead on the coast of Lango, near Stromstad, on the 4th of December, 1884. 
1 / 3 natural size. 
a: a part of the lateral line with the adjacent ordinary and accessor} 7 scales. Full size. 
Forma typica: major, boreali-arctica, Seb. norvegicus. 
R. hr. 7; TJ. 14 1. 15 • A. — ; P. 2 1. 3 + (7 1. 8 1. 9) 
13 — 15 7 — 9 
+ (7 1 . 8 1 . 9 1. 10) (in summ. 18 — 20); V. l / 5 ; C. #+11 1 . 12+.r; 
Vert. 31. 
var. minor, borealis, Seb. viviparus. 
B ■ D ■ 14 tAtW a At r 2 ’• 3 + 6 7 + 
8 1. 9 (in summ. 17 1. 18); V. V 5 ; G. x + 1 1 1. 12 + x; 
Vert. 30. 
a Hist. Nat. Poiss., tome IV, p. 326. 
b Naturlr. Tidskr., Kblivn, ser. 2, bd. 1, p. 275 and Voy. Scand. (Gaimard), PI. 6. 
c Joed., Gilb., Syn. Fish. N. Avier., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 16, p. 653. 
d Sometimes 1 + 11 (i. e. one simple and eleven branched, soft rays), sometimes 1 + 12, arid sometimes 2 + 11. Sometimes 14 accord- 
ing to Lilljeborg. 
