. Elements of zoölogy : a textbook. Zoology. 278 VERTEBRATA: PISCES OR FISHES. the Trout, Salmon, and the other members of the large and highly im- portant family of the Salmonidse. The fishes known as Alwives, Shad, Pilchards, Herrings, etc. or Clupeidse, are malacopters which have a very compressed body, and the lower portion forming a more or less serrated edge. Trout, Salmo fontinalis, Mitchell. FIG. FIG. 348. Herring, Clupea elongata, Le Sueur. Blind-fish, Ainblyopsis spelceus, Dek. Very different from any of the Malacopters hitherto noticed is the Blind-fish or Amblyopsidse of the
. Elements of zoölogy : a textbook. Zoology. 278 VERTEBRATA: PISCES OR FISHES. the Trout, Salmon, and the other members of the large and highly im- portant family of the Salmonidse. The fishes known as Alwives, Shad, Pilchards, Herrings, etc. or Clupeidse, are malacopters which have a very compressed body, and the lower portion forming a more or less serrated edge. Trout, Salmo fontinalis, Mitchell. FIG. FIG. 348. Herring, Clupea elongata, Le Sueur. Blind-fish, Ainblyopsis spelceus, Dek. Very different from any of the Malacopters hitherto noticed is the Blind-fish or Amblyopsidse of the Mam- moth Cave in Kentucky. This celebrated fish is about three inches long, and the vent is before the base of the pectorals, at the point indicated by the dotted line in the wood-cut, and the eyes are concealed under the skin. To the Malacopters also belong the various families of Eels—the electrical Eels or Gyinnotidae, the common Eels FIG. 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 Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877. New York : Scribner
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