. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE FISHING-FROG. 255 length. Its color is rather dull orange above, with bluish reflections, and white below. The fins are of a rather deep orange hue. Another small family now comes before us, called the Frog-fishes, from the froggish aspect of the body, and especiaUy of the head. The Toad-fish is a very curious-looking creature, with its flattened and wide head, gaping mouth, and spacious gill-cover. All the members of this genus are carnivorous fishes, and are spread through the coas
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE FISHING-FROG. 255 length. Its color is rather dull orange above, with bluish reflections, and white below. The fins are of a rather deep orange hue. Another small family now comes before us, called the Frog-fishes, from the froggish aspect of the body, and especiaUy of the head. The Toad-fish is a very curious-looking creature, with its flattened and wide head, gaping mouth, and spacious gill-cover. All the members of this genus are carnivorous fishes, and are spread through the coasts of the tropical regions, where they are mostly found on the bottom and partially buried in the sand or mud, in hope of surprising the active prey on which they feed. Some species, however, are found even in the temperate seas. The Toad-fish inhabits the East Indian seas, and has been taken at the mouth of the Ganges. Its color is brown, marked with a much darker tint, and the fins are streaked and blotched with similar colors. The body is without scales. MONTAGUE'S SUCBLEK. Liparis tnoutagui. I- -'. J;lrt&M/i ^__ The Toad-fishes, family Batraohidce, are included, twelve species in five genera. They are carnivorous coast fishes, mostly of the warmer seas. The young of some fasten themselves upon rocks by means of ventral discs, which, however, disappear. Common names of them are Oyster-fish and Sarpo. The Fishing-Fkog, Angler-fish, or Wide-Gtab, which is shovni in the lower figure of the illustration on page 242, has long been famous for the habit from which it has derived its popular name. The first dorsal fin is almost wholly wanting, its place being occupied merely by three spines, movable by means of certain muscles. The manner in which these spines are connected VFith the body is truly marvellous. The first, which is furnished at its tip with a loose shining slip of membrane, is developed at its base into a ring, through which passes a staple of bone that pro
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