PLATE 12 
PLATE XIII. 
GADUS CARBONARIUS. 
COAL FISH. 
* JUGULARES. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head smooth. Seven slender rays in the branchiostegeous mem- 
Hane. Body oblong. Scales deciduous. All the fins covered with 
^ skin. More than one dorsal and anal fin j rays unarmed. Ventral 
slender, pointed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Lower jaw longell ; lateral line flraight. 
At)Us Carbonarius : maxilla inferiore, longiore, linea lateral! 
recta. Gmelin. Syst. Nat. T. 3. p. 1. 
p. 1168. sp. 9. 
^idus dorso tiapterygio imberbis, maxilla inferiore, linea lateral! 
recta. Art. gen. 20 syn. 34. 
^oal Fish. Penn. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 152. n, 7. 
This species inhabits many of our rocky coasts ; towards the 
Northern part of the island it is abundant, as it is also in the whole 
