ANAEIIICHAS. 
Tuk head elevated, short, descending in front. The body more 
compressed; tail separate. Strong teeth in the jaws. Dorsal tin siuo-lo 
long, not joined to the tail; no ventral fins ° ’ 
WOLF-FISH. 
CATFISH. 
Lupus marinus Sclienfeldii, 
Anarhichas lupus, 
Anarhique loup, 
ii a 
Anarhichas lupus, 
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JoNSTON; Table 47, f. 2, but without a 
description. The figure copied by 
Willoughby, H. 3, f. 1, and p. 130, 
Linsa;us. Ctjvieh. Bnocn; pi. 74. 
L.4.0EPEDE. Donovan; pi. 24. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 208. 
Jentns; Manual, p. 384. 
Yarrell; Br! Fishes, vol. i, p. 277. 
Goktuee; Oat. Br. M., vol. iii, p, 208. 
The Wolf-fish is -well known in all the countries which lie 
on the borders of the North Sea, from Iceland and Greenland 
to Norway and Sweden, and the shores of Ireland and Scotland, 
with those of the coasts of the east of England; but it is 
among the rarest of fishes on the south of the British Islands. 
Yet it has sometimes been taken there, and a specimen is 
known to have been caught at Plymouth, with another at 
Fowey, in Cornwall. A third example was obtained at Looe 
within our own knowledge, and from this our figure and 
description were derived; a circumstance the more fortunate as 
we are not able to refer with confidence to a published 
likeness of the fish, except in the elegant work of Fries and 
Eckstrom, on the “Fishes of Scandinavia;” most of the others 
appearing to have been drawn from dried skins or such as 
were very indifferently preserved. In some parts of Scotland, 
