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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
caressing each other in everyp ossible manner, came right 
up to a landing-place in 3 dm. of water, where they 
finally hid themselves under the frame of the pier. It 
was at the end of July too, that Malm took the above- 
mentioned young specimen 13 mm. in length, close to 
the land and 3 dm. from the surface in 6 dm. of water. 
In October, 1882, Mr. Trybom, Assistant Inspector of 
Fisheries, received from the fishermen of Raa two young 
Tadpole Fish between 6 and 6V 2 cm. long. All these 
circumstances go to show that the spawning-season 
occurs in summer or spring. 
As the Tadpole Fish is caught only in small num- 
bers and has a slimy and repulsive appearance and an 
unpleasant odour, it is despised by the fishermen and 
seldom used as food. Most of the specimens taken are 
thrown away at once. Still, the flesh is white and firm, 
and, no doubt, of as good flavour as that of several 
other Codfishes. (Fries, Smitt.) 
Genus BROSMIUS. 
Only one dorsal fin and one anal, 
short, free tip. Cardiform teeth on 
Ventral fins with 5 rays of fairly uniform length, the anterior ones with 
the intermaxillary hones, in the lower jaw, and on the head of the vomer. 
Branchiostegal rays 7. 
This genus also contains only one species, which 
is of true northern nature, belonging to the Arctic 
Ocean and the North Atlantic. 
The genus stands alone among the Codfishes in its 
possession of only one dorsal fin; but in other respects 
it comes near the Lings and the Burbot, and especially 
to the Rocklings. The single species has long been 
known and has long passed in the trade in Norway" 
by the name of Brosme, in Iceland * 6 by that of Keila, 
and in England 0 by those of Torsk, Tusk, and Brismak. 
For all this it was unknown to Artedi and Linnaeus. 
Cuvier established^ a Gadoid subgenus which he called 
Les Brosmes; and Fleming’’ adopted Brosmus as a 
distinct genus. 
THE TORSK OR TUSK (sw. lubben). 
BROSMIUS BROSME. 
Plate XXV, fig. 4. 
Coloration light gray, more or less mixed with yelloi 
white and with a black 
R. hr. 7; D. 90/— 105; A. 71^—76; P. 22 * — 24; V. 5; 
C. 2 + 42 + 2; Vert. 63 — 66. 
Syn. Gadus brosme, Ascan., Ic. Rer. Nat., Fasc. II, p. 7, tab. XVII; 
Fabr., Fn. G-roenl., p. 149; Walb., Ichtli. Art., Gen. Pise., 
p. 142; Retz., Fn. Suec. Lin., p. 323; Faber, Fisch. Isl., 
p. 84; Nilss., Prodr. Ichtli. Scand., p. 47; Val., Voy. Isl., 
Groenl., Gaim., Atl., Poiss., tab. 5; Ekstr., Gbgs. Vet., Vitt. 
Samh. Handl., Ny Tidsf., Haft. I (1850), p. 39; Gthr ( Bros - 
mius), Cat. Brit. Mus., Fish., vol. IV, p. 369; Coll., Forh. 
Vid. Selsk. Christ. 1874, Tillicgsh., p. 125; ibid. 1879, No. 
1, p. 69; Malm, Gbgs, Boh. Fn., p. 499; Goode, Bean, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. I (1878), p. 362; Day, Fish. Gt. Brit., 
a Leem, Lapp., p. 327; Strom, Sondm., vol. I, p. 272, tab. 
6 Olafsen, Reise Isl., vol. I, p. 358, No. 6. 
c Pennant, Brit. Zool., tom. Ill (1776), p. 178. 
d Regne Anim ., ed. I, tom. II, p. 216. In the second editio 
This name is indeed two years younger than Fleming’s Brosmus, but 
e Brit. Anim., p. 194. 
/' Sometimes 85, according to Kkoyer. 
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', on the belly grayish white; the vertical fins edged with 
band within this margin. 
Irel., vol. I, p. 323, tab. XC, fig. 2; Jord., Gilb., Bull. U. 
S. Nat. Mus., No. 16, p. 802; Storm, Vid. Selsk. Skr. Throndhj. 
1883, p. 37; Lillj., Sv., Norg. Fish., vol. II, p. 202. 
Gadus Lubb , Euphrasen, Vet. Akad. Hand]. 1794, p. 223, 
tab. VIII. 
Brosmus vulgaris, Flmng, 1. c. ; Stoker, ( Brosmius ), Rep. Ichtli., 
Herpet. Mass., p. 136; Kr., Damn. Fisk., wol. 2, p. 215; 
Nilss., Skand. Fn., Fisk., p. 597 ; Mgrn, Finl. Fiskfn. 
(disp. Helsingf.), p. 31 ; Olsen, Piscatorial Atlas, No. 21. 
Brosmius jlavescens, LeSueur., Mem. Mus., tom. V, p. 158, 
tab. 16, fig. 2; Gthr, Cat., 1. c. 
Brosmius americanus, Gill., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1863, 
p. 242. 
1, fig. 19. 
i of this work (1829), tom. II, p. 334, the name of Brosmius occurs, 
it has come into general use. 
