Fishes . Fig. 657.—Burbot, Lota maculosa (Le Sueur). New York. The rocklings {Gaidropsarus and Enchclyopiis) have thefirst dorsal composed of a band of fringes preceded by a singleray. The species are small and slender, abounding chiefly in theMediterranean and the North Atlantic. The young have been. Fig. 658 —Four-bearded Reckling, Enchelyopus cimbrixis (Linnseus).Naliaiit, Mass. called mackerel-midges. Our commonest species is Enchely-opus cimbrius, found also in Great Britain. The cusk, or torsk, Brosme brosme, has a single dorsal fin Opisthomi and Anacanthini y^r only. It is a large fish
Fishes . Fig. 657.—Burbot, Lota maculosa (Le Sueur). New York. The rocklings {Gaidropsarus and Enchclyopiis) have thefirst dorsal composed of a band of fringes preceded by a singleray. The species are small and slender, abounding chiefly in theMediterranean and the North Atlantic. The young have been. Fig. 658 —Four-bearded Reckling, Enchelyopus cimbrixis (Linnseus).Naliaiit, Mass. called mackerel-midges. Our commonest species is Enchely-opus cimbrius, found also in Great Britain. The cusk, or torsk, Brosme brosme, has a single dorsal fin Opisthomi and Anacanthini y^r only. It is a large fish found on both shores of the North Atlan-tic, but rather rare on our coasts. Fossil codfishes are not numerous. Fragments thought tobelong to this family are fotmd in EngUsh Eocene rocks. Nemopteryx iroscheli, from the Oligocene of Glarus, has threedorsal fins and a lunate caudal fin. Other forms have beenreferred with more or less doubt to Gadus, Brosmiiis, Strinsia,and Melanogramnms. Gill separates the three-forked hake {Rantceps trifur-cus) of northern Europe as a distinct family, Ramcipitidcs. Inthis species the head is very large, broad and depressed, differ-ing in this regard from the codlings and hakes, which have alsotwo dorsal fins. The deep-water genus, Bathyonus, is alsoregarded as
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