Fishes . Fio. 214.—A Silver Anchovy, Anchovia perthecala (Goode & Bean). Tampa. bones firm and stifY, and the flesh generally dry. Except asfood for larger fish, these have little value, although existingin immense schools. Most of the species have a bright silverybantl along the side. The most familiar of the very numerousspecies is the silver anchovy, Anchovia browni, which aboundsin sandy bays from Cape Cod to Brazil. Several other generaoccur farther southward, as well as in Asia, but Engraulis onlyis found in Europe. Fossil anchovies called Engraulis arerecorded from the Tertiary of Europ
Fishes . Fio. 214.—A Silver Anchovy, Anchovia perthecala (Goode & Bean). Tampa. bones firm and stifY, and the flesh generally dry. Except asfood for larger fish, these have little value, although existingin immense schools. Most of the species have a bright silverybantl along the side. The most familiar of the very numerousspecies is the silver anchovy, Anchovia browni, which aboundsin sandy bays from Cape Cod to Brazil. Several other generaoccur farther southward, as well as in Asia, but Engraulis onlyis found in Europe. Fossil anchovies called Engraulis arerecorded from the Tertiary of Europe. Gonorhynchidae.—-To the Isospondyli belongs the small primi-tive family of iionorhyndiida, elongate fishes with small mouth,feeble teeth, no air-bladder, small scales of peculiar structurecovering the head, weak dentition, the dorsal fin small, and. 8 s CD O 282 Isospondyli posterior without spines. The mesocoracoid is present as inordinary Isospondyli. Gonorliyncltits abbreviatits occurs inJapan, and Gonorhynchns go)iorliyiuIiiis is found in AustraHa andabout the Cape of Good Hope. Numerous fossil species lineolaUts and other species are found in the Cre-taceous of Blount Lebanon and elsewhere. Species witlioutteeth from the Oligocene of Europe and America are referredto the genus Notogoiieus. Noiogonens osculits occurs in theEocene fresh-water deposits at Green River, Wyoming. Itbears a very strong resemblance in form to an ordinary sucker{Catostomus), for which reason it was once described by thename of Protocatostomus. The living Gonorhynchida; are allstrictly marine. In the small family of Cromeriidcc the head and body are naked. The Osteoglossidae.—Still less closely related to the herringis the family of Osteoglossidcs, huge pike-like fishes of the tropicalrivers, armed with hard bony scales formed of
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