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much longer, and has fifty-fix rays ; the pinna ani has forty-feven rays, and the ven¬ 
tral fins have only feven rays each: the tail is large, and is rounded at the ex¬ 
tremity. 
We have this very frequent in our own feas, and it is abundant in the Mediterra¬ 
nean, and in many others. Bellonius calls it Galea Venetorum five Afellorum altera 
fpecies 5 Rondelet, Gefner, Aldrovand, Willughby, and Ray call it Muftela vulgaris« 
Jonfton fimply, Muftela 3 Schoneveldt, Muftela altera: the Venetians call it Donzel- 
lina and Sorge 3 and we, the Whiftle-fifli. 
Gadus dorfo dipterygio , ore cirrato , maxillis cequalihus . 
The cirrated Gadus , with two fins on the backj and the 
jaws equal ’ 
eel- 
pout- 
This is a long and flender fpecies: the head is large, broad, and deprefled 5 the eyes 
are not very large, nor fo prominent as in many of the other fpecies: the body is long, 
flender, and not flat, but of a rounded figure : the back is convex 3 the fides are 
rounded, and the belly is alfo fomewhat prominent and rounded : the back is of a 
dulky brownifh-grey, with a tinge of olive colour in it; the fides are of the fame co¬ 
lour, only fainter, and both are elegantly clouded and variegated 5 the belly is white 
and Ample: the whole fifh is foft, lubricous, and flippery, in the manner of an eel: 
there are two fins on the back 5 the firft of them is fhort, and has thirteen rays5 the 
fecond is long, and has twenty-fix rays: the pedtoral fins have each twenty-one rays; 
the ventral ones have feven rays each, and the pinna ani has fifty-five rays. 
We have it in plenty in fome of our larger rivers. Aldrovand, Willughby, and 
Ray call it Lota 3 Gefner, Lota Gallis didta 5 and Jonfton, Lota Gallorum j Belloni¬ 
us and Gefner call it Striufia five Botatrifia 5 Ifidore and Cuba, Borbotha 3 Olaus 
Magnus Borbocha 3 Salvian calls it Botatria and Trifeus 3 and Hildegard, Abropa; 
moft of the other writers have called it Muftela fluviatilis and lacuftris. 
The other fpecies of the Gadus are, 1. The Gadus, with three fins on the back, 
with a cirrated mouth, and with the tail nearly even at the extremity, with the firft 
ray of it fpinofe or prickly. This is the fpecies which the Danes call Cablag, and the 
Swedes Cabila, and which many of the writers on fifties have called Morva, or Mor- 
hua, or Molva vulgaris, a name fome have underftood, as fignifying the common 
cod-fifh, but this erroneoufly. 2. The long, fmaller-mouthed, Eaft Indian Gadus, 
ANARHICAS. 
r ^ H E body of the Anarhicas is compreflfed, and the head, on the contrary, is 
fomewhat deprefled 3 there are no ventral fins: on the back there is only one 
fin, which is very long, and extends almoft to the tail : the pinna ani is alfo very 
long, and the tail is diftindt and fquare : the branchioftege membrane contains fix, and 
fometimes more, oflicles. 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies. 
Anarhicas. 
%\)e fflBoif- 
This is a very Angular fifh 3 it grows to four or five feet in length, and is confiderably 
thick, in proportion : the head is very large, and of a deprefled figure 3 the opening of 
the mouth is enormoufly wide, and there are a vaft multitude of large and ftrong teeth 
in the jaws, on the palate, and deep in the fauces: the eyes are very large and promi¬ 
nent 5 they ftand very high on the head, and have a look of a peculiar fiercenefs: the 
noftrils ftand at a moderate diftance below them, and have each a double aperture 3 
the back is convex, and the fides are prominent: the whole body of the fifh is foft 
and lubricous, in the manner of that of an eel, and is elegantly variegated with fe- 
veral colours: the pe&oral fins are very large, and of a rounded figure : the back fin 
is very long, but not remarkably tall 5 the pinna ani alfo is long and low. 
It is fometimes, but rarely, caught in the Mediterranean, and has been accidentally 
taken upon .our own coaft. I remember to have feen a large one at Goodwood, 
brought as a prefent to the late Duke of Richmond from the Suflex coaft, where it 
had been caught by fome fiftiermen. It is an extreamly voracious and bold fifh, feizing 
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