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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife51920baus (find matches)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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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'i"— 1 An Odd i'runkisK CARL L. HUBBS Field Museum of Natural History and Chicago Aquarium Society) T j J 4 t.— I I i I i ) ) ) ) 1 ^—.
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Lactophrys tricornis Horned Trunkfish Photograph from life by P. H. Pope Among the myriads of peculiar trop- ical marine fishes, few are as little like our conventional conception of a fish as are the species of the Ostraciontidae, the trunkfishes. In these odd creatures the body is almost entirely closed in a hard bony carapace, made up of hexagonal plates (which are modified scales). Only the mouth and eyes, and the fins and their bases are free, and of the fins the pelvic or ventral pair is wholly lacking. Many of the species are brightly colored. I and conspicuously spotted. Four species of trunkfishes, referred to the genus Lactophrys, inhabit tropical American waters between the United States and Brazil. Perhaps the best known species is Lactophrxs triconiis (the horned trunkfish, cowfish or cuck- old). Most of the names applied to this fish refer to the horns which are devel- oped on the carapace, the two most prominent extending forward from above (Concluded on page 36^

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