cocytinid (kositinid)

A salamander-like amphibian of the family Cocytinida. Cocytinidæ (kos-i-tin'i-dē), n. pl. [NL. (Cope, 1082 code these old sioners of Grey Friars' hospital] Codds, I know not where The Cistercian lads called old gentlemen Thackeray, New comes, Ixxv. fore. head. The orig. L. sense ( testa , pot, shell, etc.) would support the derivation from codl , shell.] 1. The common English name of the Gadus morrhua, an an acanthine fish of the family coddelt, n. Gadidæ , and its best-known representative. It codde2t, n. is a valuable food-fish, and is widely distributed through out the northern and temperate seas of both hemispheres, but does not enter the Mediterranean, though found as Cod (Gadus morrhua). (From Report of U. S. Fish Commi ion, 1884.) far south as Gibraltar. The principal cod-fisheries are on the banks of Newfoundland and the coasts of New England, but very valuable ones also exist on the coasts of Norway. It is a very voracious fish, living in water from 25 50 fathoms deep, where it always feeds close to the bottom, and will take almost any kind of bait which may be offered. The cod reaches maturity at the end of the third year, when it usually measures about 3 feet in length and weighs from 12 to 20 pounds; individuals, however, have been taken weighing from 50 to more than 100 pounds. The cod is of great commercial importance both as a food-fish and as the source of cod-liver oil, which po e es nutritive and therapeutic qualities of much value. Some variations in the size or quality of cod are indicated by terms expre ive of the location in which they are taken, as deep - water or shoal- water cod, shore or inshore cod, etc. The name is also extended, as a popular family term equivalent to Gadidæ, to all the species, and in different English-speaking countries is misapplied to various species of scorpænids, chirids, serranids, sparids, percophidids, and ophidiids. 2. A chiroid fish, Ophiodon elongatus, of the Pacific coasts of North America, universally called cod and codfish where the true cod is unknown. Also called cultus-cod.-3. A serranoid fish, Poly prion oxygeneios, of New Zealand, properly called hapuka. - Bank cod, a commercial term for cod caught on the banks of Newfoundland, of superior value. -Black rock-cod, an Indian sparoid fish, Sparus berda, considered to be an excellent food-fish. [Madras Presidency.]-Blue-cod. (a) In the United States, the cultus cod. (b) In New Zealand, the rock-cod. Brown cod, cod of a dark color living near shores. - Buffalo-cod, the cultus-cod.-Clam-cod, inshore cod which feed on clams. 1875), Cocytinus + -ida .] An extinct family Cloudy bay-cod. See bay -cod. Fresh-water cod, a of proteoid amphibians, typified by the genus Cocytinus. The third pair of hemal branchihyals was developed and the first and second pairs were free and distinct; the maxillaries were weak. The species had an elongated body and tail, and lived during the Carbon i fer- ous period.