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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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ld hurt them. And by and by they hungthemselves all up on the seaweeds, and they are hanging thereyet. And so he crawled back to his own piece of seaweed andtwisted his tail around it, and waited to see what would happennext. And what happened next was just the same thing overagain. Suborder Hypostomides, the Sea-moths: Pegasidae.—The smallsuborder of Hypostomides (vno, below; a-rofun, mouth) con-sists of the family of Pegasidcc. These sea-moths arefantastic little fishes, probably allied to the sticklebacks, butwholly unique in form. Tlie slender body is covered withbony plates, the gill-covers are reduced to a single plate. Thesmall mouth underneath a long snout has no teeth. The pre-opercle and the symplectic are both wanting. The ventralsare abdominal, formed of two rays, and the very large pec-toral fin is placed horizontally like a great wing. Phthinobranchii 455 The species, few in number, known as sea-moths and sea-dragons, rarely exceed four inches in length. They are found
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Fig 359 —Sea-moth, Zahses umitengu Jordan & Snyder. Misaki, Japan.(View from below.) in the East Indies and drift with the ctirrents northward toJapan. The genera are Pegasus, Parapegasiis^ and Zalises.The best-known species are Zalises draconis and Pegasus voli-tans. No fossil species of Pegasidce are known. CHAPTER XXIX SALMOPERC^ AND OTHER TRANSITIONAL GROUPS UBORDER Salmopercae, the Trout-perches: Percopsidae. —More ancient than the Hemibranchii, and still moredistinctly in the line of transition from soft-rayed tospiny-rayed fishes, is the small suborder of Salmopercce. Thisis characterized by the presence of the adipose fin of the salmon,

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  • bookleafnumber:492
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