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CHAP. XX.] FISHES. 439
Mexico to La Plata ; Mesonauta (1 sp.), Brazil ; Peienia (1 sp.),
Lake Peten, Guatemala ; Uaru (2 sp.), Brazil ; Hygrogonus
(1 sp.), Brazil ; CicJila (4 sp.). Equatorial America ; Crenicichla
(9 sp.), BrazU and Guiana ; Chcetobranchus (3 sp.), Brazil and
Guiana ; Mesops (2 sp.), Brazil ; Satanoperca (7 sp.), Amazon
Valley and Guiana ;
Geophagus (1 sp.). North Brazil and Guiana ;
Symphysoclon (1 sp.), Lower Amazon; Pterophyllum (1 sp.),
Lower Amazon.
Order III.—ANACANTHINI.
Family 53.—GADOPSID^. (1 Genus, 1 Species.)
" Fresh-water fish, with rather elongate body covered with very
small scales, the upper jaw overhanging the lower, forming an
obtuse snout."
Distribution.—Eivers of Australia and Tasmania.
Family 53a.—LYCODID.E. (3 Genera, 14 Species.)
"Marine fishes, with elongate bodies, and the dorsal united
with the anal fin."
DiSTKiBUTiON.—Arctic seas of America and Greenland, and
Antarctic seas about the Falkland Islands and Chiloe Island.
Family 54.—GADID^. (21 Genera, 58 Species.)
"Marine fishes, with more or less elongate bodies covered
with small smooth scales."
Distribution.—Cold and temperate regions of both hemi-
spheres ;
in the North extending as far south as the Mediterranean,
Canary Islands, New York and Japan (and one species to the
Philippines and Bay of Bengal), and in the South to Chili and
New Zealand.
Gadus (Cod), Merluccius (Hake), Phycis, Lota, Molva, Gouchia,
Motella, and Baniceps, are British, lota inhabits fresh waters.
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