. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. i^IG. 264.—THE FLYING-FISH. new element, their brilliant purple backs gleaming, and their sides blazing like molten metal, under the dazzhng light of a tropical sun. The greatest length of time they remain in the air is thirty-two seconds, and their longest fliglit from 200 to 250 yards. The Siluroids differ from all other abdominal Malacopter^^gians, in their want of true scales. The skin is naked, or furnished with bony plates. The dorsal and pectoral fins have a long articulated spine for the first fin-ray, and there is a sm
. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. i^IG. 264.—THE FLYING-FISH. new element, their brilliant purple backs gleaming, and their sides blazing like molten metal, under the dazzhng light of a tropical sun. The greatest length of time they remain in the air is thirty-two seconds, and their longest fliglit from 200 to 250 yards. The Siluroids differ from all other abdominal Malacopter^^gians, in their want of true scales. The skin is naked, or furnished with bony plates. The dorsal and pectoral fins have a long articulated spine for the first fin-ray, and there is a small adipose, or soft fin, towards the hinder part of the back : one species, The Sheat Fish (Sihmis glams), is the largest fresh-water fish in Europe; its length ordinarily exceeds six feet, and its weight is near three hundred pounds. The Electric Silurus (Silurus eledricus) of the Nile, like the Torpedo and Gymnotus, possesses the power of giving strong electric shocks. The seat of this extraordinary faculty is in a peculiar tissue, situated between the muscles and the skin, and having the ap- pearance of a fatty cellular structure. This fish, which inhabits the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880. London : Society for Promoting Knowledge
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