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PLATE CII. 
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GADUS MOLVA. 
LING, 
»*» PISCES JUGULARES. 
GENEUIC CHABACTEB. 
Head smooth. Seven slender rays In the branchiostegous mem- 
fci-ane. Body oblong. Scales deciduous. All the fins covered vrkh 
skin. More than one dorsal and anal fin ; rays unarmed. Ventral 
slender, pointed. 
SPECIFIC CHAEACTEB 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Mouth bearded j upper jaw longest. 
m 
Gadus Molva : cirratus, maxilla supeiiore longiore. Gmel, 
Linn. Syst. Nat. ino. 
Gadus dorso dipterygio, ore serrato, maxilla superiore longiore. 
Anted, syn. 36. 
Langa. Faun. Succ. N. 313. 
Ling fische. Belon, 130. 
Ling. Will. Ichth. ins.-^Raii. syn. fisc. b^.—Penn. Brit. Zool. 
V. 3. p. 197. 85. 
The Ling is abundant in the northern seas of Europe. On the 
coasts of Ireland, and those of Scotland in particular, the fishery of 
