PLATE 17 
PLATE XIV. 
GADUS MUSTELA. 
FIFE BEARDED COD FISH. 
** JUGULARES. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head smootli. Seven slender rays in the branchiostegeous-inem.* 
^nine. Body oblong. Scales deciduous. All the fins covered with 
^ skin. More than one dorsal and anal fin ; rays unarmed. Ventral 
fin slender, pointed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Five beards. First dorsal fin obsolete- 
Gadus Mustella : cirris quinque, pinna dorsal! priore exsoleta. 
Gniel. Syst, Nat. T. 1. p. 3. p. IITS. 
sp. 25. 
t)ors(5 dipterygio, cirris maxlllEe superloris 4, inferiorls 1. Mus. 
Ad. Fr. 1. 
Eive bearhed Cod. Fenn. Brit. Zool. T ol. 3. p. 202. sp. S8. 
This, and the small species of Gadus, tricirratus, have been con. 
sldered by some as varieties of the same species. Our reason for dis- 
