PLATE XXVIII. 
GADUS MERLUCCIUS. 
HAKE. 
« JUGULARES. 
GENEKIC CHARACTER. 
Head smooth. Seven slender rays in the branchlostegous mem- 
'^tane. Body oblong. Scales deciduous. All the fins covered with 
^ skin. More than one dorsal and anal fin : rays unarmed. Ventral 
fill slender, pointed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Beardless : inferior jaw longest. 
Gadus Merluccius: imberbe, maxilla inferiorc longiore. lAnn. 
Mus. Ad. Fr. 2. p. 60.— Fn. Suec. 314.— 
Gmel. p. 1169. sp.-ll. 
Gadus dipterygius ore imberbi. Bloch. Aus. Fi'sch. 2. p 93, t. 
1S4. 
■^sellus, Plin. hist. mund. 
Asellus primus. IVill. ichth. p. pise. p. 56. 
Hake. Brit.Zool. Vol. 3. p. 156. n. 10. 
