American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . CUVIER) OKEN Body long and low, compressed behind; head small, depressed,rather broad; anterior nostrils each with a small barbel; chin witha long barbel; snout and lower parts of head naked; mouthmoderate, the lower jaw included; each jaw with broad bandsof equal, villiform teeth; vomer with a broad crescent-shapedband of similar teeth; no teeth on palatines; gill-openings wide,the membranes somewhat connected,
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . CUVIER) OKEN Body long and low, compressed behind; head small, depressed,rather broad; anterior nostrils each with a small barbel; chin witha long barbel; snout and lower parts of head naked; mouthmoderate, the lower jaw included; each jaw with broad bandsof equal, villiform teeth; vomer with a broad crescent-shapedband of similar teeth; no teeth on palatines; gill-openings wide,the membranes somewhat connected, free from the isthmus;scales very small, imbedded; vertical fins scaly; dorsal fins 2,the anterior short, the second long and similar to the anal;caudal rounded, its outer rays procurrent. One of the 2 known species is found in our waters. Thisis the ling or lake lawyer, Lota maculosa. The ling is our onlyfreshwater member of the codfish family. It is found pretty welldistributed in the larger lakes of Canada and the northern UnitedStates from Maine and New Brunswick to the headwaters of theMissouri, and to Alaska. It is probably most abundant in the 517 The Codlings, or Hakes. Great Lakes, and has been recorded from the Eagle and Lakes, and Lake Temisconti. It has been obtained fromvarious places in the headwaters of the Missouri and have seen specimens from Red Rock Lake in Montana, LakeChelan in Washington, and from the Fraser and Columbia reaches a length of i to 3 feet, and though not usuallyregarded as a food-fish, it is utilized in some places. Properlysmoked or sahed it is not inferior to other coarse species. The ling is disposed to stay in the deeper waters of thelakes it inhabits, and is not often seen in the shallows. Amongthe many common names by which this fish is known may bementioned ling, lake lawyer, burbot and freshwater cusk. This species is so unlike any other American freshwater fishthat it can readily be identified by the
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