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BEOSMIUS. 
This genus is marked by having only a single fin on the back, a 
lengthened body, and a barb at the chin. It is therefore an aberrant 
form of the true gadoid fishes; but it agrees with them in aU points, 
except in the absence of a first dorsal fin. 
TOESK. 
TUSK. 
Gadus bros'ine, 
Brosmus vulgaris, 
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LACErann. Donovan ; pi. 70. 
Fleming; British Animals, p. 104. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 452. 
T AERELL ; British Fishes, vol. ii, p- 235. 
Tubton’s edition of Linnseus represents Gadus hrosme and 
G. scoticus to be distinct species, the former being perhaps the 
Brosmius lul of modern writers. The fish itself was unknown 
to Artedi and Linnmus. In the Scandinavian lanpages the 
word Torsk is applied to the species of Codfishes in general, 
as distinguished from the Pollacks and Lings, but in the 
northern portions of the British Islands it has become the 
name of a fish not belonging to that section of gadoid fishes 
to which the people of the north had confined it. 
The fish so named in England is a native of the northern 
seas, and is met with in abundance in the neighbourhood of 
the Orkney and Zetland Islands, where it is the object of a 
fishery of considerable local importance. On the newly 
re-discovered ground at Rockall it exists in common with the 
Cod and Ling, but it becomes more rare as we come southward; 
and, although it is sometimes caught in the Moray Firth, 
there is no instance on record of its being met with in 
