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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife319171918baus (find matches)
Year: 1917-1918 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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»' History) of IcKtKyology. Part 2 MAJOR R. W. SHUFELDT, Medical Corps, U. S. A.
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MONOCANTHUS HISPIDU5 THE FILE-FISH Among the writers of ancient times on fishes—and especially those who fol- lowed after Aristotle—no name is better known, perhaps, than that of P. Belon, who flourished over 1900 years after him. Belon was at the height of his fame at about the time his De aquatilibus lihri duo appeared in Paris, which was during the year 1553. Prior to the appearance of this celebrated ichthyological work, he had published several other less for- mal ones, they being based upon the specimens he had collected from 1547 to 1550 along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and in the rivers of the countries bordering upon it. Some one hundred and ten fishes are described and figured by Belon, to which he gives the common as well as the sci- entific names; and he further paid, in his work, considerable attention to both external and internal structure. He knew the principal bones of the piscine skeleton, though he rarely defined them. Indeed, many of his fishes were classified according to size, while he came much nearer the truth when he referred them to two groups—those having blood and those that did not; and then subse- quently employed, taxonomically, such characters as he was familiar with, or had personally for the first time de- scribed. Sometimes he would supplement the description of a fish with an account of its special habitat, thus fully estab- lishing his reputation for adopting the methods of the scientific naturalist— whether of ancient or of modern times. Following Belon, next in order of dis- tinction was H. Salviani (1514-72), a Roman writer on the fishes of Italy (1554-57), the work being entitled

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