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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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e tropical seas, ponds, and river-mouths, especially abundant in Polynesia. Kiihlia malo isthe aholehole of the Hawaiians, a silvery fish living in greatnumbers in brackish waters. KitJilia riipestris, the salele of theSamoan rivers, is a large swift fish of the rock pools, in form, color,and habits remarkably like the black bass. It is silvery bronzein hue, ever^where mottled with olive-green. The sesele, Kiililiamarginata, lives with it in the rivers, but is less abundant. Thesaboti, Kiihlia tirniura, a large silvery fish with cross-bands onthe caudal fin, lives about lava-rocks in Polynesia from theGalapagos to Samoa and the East Indies, never entering rivers.Still other species are found in the rock j)ools and streams ofJapan and southward. The skeleton in Knhlia is essentially like that of the blackbass, and Dr. Boulenger places the genus with the Ccntrarchidcc. The True Perches: Percidae.—The great family of PercidcBincludes fresh-water fishes of the northern hemisphere, elon-
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3 •a ss I Percoidea, or Perch-like Fishes ^^i gate in body with the vertebra in increased number and withonly two spmes in the anal fin. About ninety speciesTrerecorded, the vast majority being American. The Iwarf perches tt c1earTt:imf tTh^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^ char::fe:?S^:f These con tTo )\r^^ ^^ ^^e plains of the Missouri,inese constitute one of the greatest attractions of our Americannver fauna. They differ from the perch and its EuropeanTre n thJ i^.^T^ ^°^^^^°^ °f ^^^ pseudobranchi^ and«.e a:r-bladder both of which organs are aLost inapp Ibk S is Tr Th r-r ^^ ^^^^^ °^ «- br?nchste:gak IS SLv The anal papilla is likewise developed, as in the Gob^.d., to which group the darters bear a considerable super ficial resemblance, which, however, indicates no real aSv Relations of Darters to Perches.-The colors of the S/i osonun., or darters, are usually very brilliant, specief of EtJ^ostoma especially being among the most brilliantly colored being, as a rule, dull m color and more speckl

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