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Centrolabrus exoletus, Linné. Small-mouthed Wrasse, Rock Cook. 
Taken occasionally in Loch Fyne (B. & 8.). 
Coris julis (Linné). The Rainbow Wrasse. 
Recorded for the Clyde area on the authority of Dr, J. Young (H.B., 
p. 200). 
Order ANACANTHINI. 
Fam. Gapip#, Cuvier. 
Gadus callarius, Linné. The Cod. 
Common and generally distributed. The natural habitat of the cod 
is In moderately deep water; this is shown by the fact that if they are 
exposed for a lengthened period to daylight their eyes become more or 
less diseased. When at Rothesay Aquarium in 1886-87 I observed that 
the eyes of almost all the specimens of cod kept there were diseased, and 
one specimen was entirely blind and had to be fed separately. This 
disease, which at first took the form of an opaque white spot, but which 
gradually extended all over the eye, was ascribed to the fish being kept 
exposed to the daylight. The cod were the only fishes in the Aquarium | 
that were affected in this way. 
Gadus xglefinus, Linné. The Haddock. 
More or less frequent, and generally distributed throughout the Clyde 
area, but much less abundant than on the Hast Coast. Upper Loch Fyne 
in the centre in 65 to 70 fathoms (M.).; between Pennymore and 
Inveraray (G.). 
Gadus luscus, Linné. The Bib, or Whiting Pout. 
Occasionally in Tarbert harbour (B. & S.); Tarbert Bank, Lower 
Loch Fyne; and between Dunderawe and Cairndow, Upper Loch Fyne 
(G.). Generally distributed throughout the Clyde estuary, but seldom 
more than 8 to 10 inches in length. Two, 13 inches in length, were 
obtained near Sanda Island in May 1897. A specimen in the Fishery 
Board’s collection in the Laboratory at Bay of Nigg measures fully 15 
inches in length, 
Gadus minutus, Linné. The Poor or Power Cod. 
Dr. Giinther in his paper on Clyde Fishes states that “the specimens 
obtained on March 10th and 17th were ready to spawn, and had fed on 
Nyctiphanes, sand eels, and Aphrodite.’ This Gadus is usually more or 
less in evidence amongst the contents of the shrimp-trawl of the Fishery 
steamer ‘‘ Garland.” 
Gadus esmarkit (Nilsson). ‘The Norway Pout. 
According to Dr. Giinther, the distribution of this species in the Clyde 
extends from Kilbrennan Sound. to Lower Loch Fyne, where young 
specimens were found in tolerable abundance at 80 fathoms. He also 
remarks that “the species does not appear to be unfrequent in Kilbrennan 
Sound.” He states further that “the characteristics by which Gadus 
esmafkit can be distinguished from its British congeners are :—The lower 
jaw, which projects beyond the upper; the dentition, the teeth of the outer 
series in the upper jaw being a little larger than the inner ones; the 
