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Asellus (not ST. HILAIRE 1764) VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. 
Canaries, vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 76, 1836-44 (Type Asellus 
canariensis VALENCIENNES Gadus mora Risso, monotypic.) 
Body moderately long, tail tapering moderately. Head rather 
small. Snout convex. Eye large, advanced. Mouth large, subinferior, 
oblique, lower jaw included. Teeth cardiform, equal, in jaws, on vomer and 
palatines, those of upper jaw in bands. Mandibular.barbel present. Gill 
openings large. Branchiostegals 7. Scales moderate, cover head and trunk. 
Dorsals separate, prominent, as short anterior fin and long posterior. Anal 
2, widely separated. Caudal forked. Ventral rays 6. 
• M ora mora (Risso) 
Gadus mora RISSO, Ichth. Nice, p. 116, 1810 (type locality: Nice). 
Mora mora GARMAN, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 24, p. 393, 1899 
(reference). --BRAUER, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped. Valdivia , vol. 
15, p. 393, 1906 (reference). —MURRAY and HJORT, Depths of the 
Ocean, p. 400, fig. 278 (copied) (off southern England; Morocco; 
Canaries; 923 to 1365 meters). 
