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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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eels, but are without scales and witha somewhat different mouth, the dorsal beginning nearer to thehead. The principal genus is Lcptocephalns, including the commonconger-eel (Leptocephalus conger) of eastern America and Europeand numerous very similar species in the troi:)ics of both con-tinents. These fishes are strictly marine and, reaching thelength of five or six feet, are much valued as food. The eggsare much larger than those of the eel and are produced in greatnumbers, so that the female almost bursts with their numbers.Dr. Hermes calculated that 3,300,000 were laid by one femalein an aquarium. These eggs hatch out into transparent band-like larva, withvery small heads formerly known as Leptocephalus, an ancientname which is now taken for the genus of congers, having The Apodes or Eel-like Fishes 3^9 been first used for the larva of the common conger-eel. Theloose watery tissues of these ghost-fishes grow more and morecompact and they are finally transformed into young congers.
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Conger-eel, Leptocephalus conger (L.). Noank, Conn. The Mitrcenesocidw are large eels remarkable for their strongknife-like teeth. Mitrccnesox savanna occurs in the WestIndies and in the Mediterranean, Mitrceiiesox cinereiis in Japan,and Miircsnesox coniceps on the west coast of Mexico, all large

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