PLATE XCII. 
GADUS LOTA. 
BURBOT. 
*»» PISCES JUGULARES. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head smooth. Seven slender rays in the branchiostegous mem- 
brane. Body oblong. Scales deciduous. All the fins covered with 
a skin. More than one dorsal and anal fin ; rays unarmed. Ventral 
slender, pointed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER ' 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Bearded: jaws equal: dorsal fins two: tail nearly oval 
Gadus Lota: cirratus, maxillis squalibus, pinnis dorsalibus duabus, 
cauda subovah. 
Gabus Lota: cirratus, maxlllis aqualibus. Linn. Fn. Suec. 315. 
Omel. Linn. Si/st, Nai. T. 3. p- inz. 
11 . 14 . 
Gadus dorso dipterygio, ore cirrato, maxillls requallbus. Art. Gen. 
22. sy». 38. 
Mustella fluvlatllis. Will Lchth. p. \^S.—Kay. pise. p. 67. 
Burbot. Penn. Brit. Zool. v. 3. p. 199. 
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