Papers . i/ G TENNENT. 11. THE PRODUCTION OF LIGHT BY THE FISHESPHOTOBLEPHARON AND ANOMALOPS. By E. NEWTON HARVEY, Princeton University. THE PRODUCTION OF LIGHT BY THE FISHESPHOTOBLEPHARON AND ANOMALOPS. By E. Newton Harvey. GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE FISHES. In the Banda Islands, southeast of Amboina, the Moluccas, DutchEast Indies, occur two luminous fish with relatively very largeluminous organs. One, Photoblepharon palpebratus, called ikan(= fish) leweri (= ?) batu (= stone) by the natives, is known onlyfrom this general region, and was first described by Boddaert (1781)from a specimen obtaine
Papers . i/ G TENNENT. 11. THE PRODUCTION OF LIGHT BY THE FISHESPHOTOBLEPHARON AND ANOMALOPS. By E. NEWTON HARVEY, Princeton University. THE PRODUCTION OF LIGHT BY THE FISHESPHOTOBLEPHARON AND ANOMALOPS. By E. Newton Harvey. GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE FISHES. In the Banda Islands, southeast of Amboina, the Moluccas, DutchEast Indies, occur two luminous fish with relatively very largeluminous organs. One, Photoblepharon palpebratus, called ikan(= fish) leweri (= ?) batu (= stone) by the natives, is known onlyfrom this general region, and was first described by Boddaert (1781)from a specimen obtained at Amboina. It is caught with hand-netsin shallow water, swimming singly or few together, among the stonesor corals. The other, Anomalops katoptron, called ikan leweri ajer(= water) or laut (= sea) by the natives, occurs also, althoughrarely, at Amboina, Menado (North Celebes), Fiji, New Hebrides,and the Paumotus. It was described by Bleeker in 1858. UnlikePhotoblepharon, it swims in schools of 100 or more near the s
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