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Identifier: fishes00jord (find matches)
Title: Fishes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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o o u 6 o The Mythology of Fishes 153 It is often hard to account for some of the stories of the sea-serpent. A gentleman of unquestioned intelligence and sincer-ity lately dercribed to the writer a sea-serpent he had seen atshort range, 100 feet long, swimming at the surface, and witha head as large as a barrel. I do not know what he saw, but Ido know that memory sometimes plays strange freaks. Little venomous snakes with flattened tails (Plaiyitrus,Pelamis) are found in the salt bays in many tropical regions ofthe Pacific (Gulf of California, Panama, East Indies, Japan),but these are not the conventional sea-serpents. Certain slender fishes, as the thread-eel (Nemichthys) andthe wolf-eel (Aiianhichihys), have been brought to naturalistsas young sea-serpents, but these of course are genuine fishes. Whatever the nature of the sea-serpent may be, this muchis certain, that while many may be seen, none will ever becaught. The great swimming reptiles of the sea vanished atthe end of Mesoz

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