Fishes . her could bite if it would, and neither wants to, for theyare creatures of the most inoftensive sort. On the head of thedealfish, where the oarfish has its mane, is a long, streamer-likefin. At the end of the tail, instead of the ordinary caudal fin,is a long, slim fin which projects directly upwards at rightangles to the direction of the back-bone. No o|her fish showsthis strange peculiarity. The dealfish swims in the open sea close to the surface ofthe water. It does not often come near shore, but it is occa-sionally blown on the beach by storms. Trachypterus rex-salmonormn has been
Fishes . her could bite if it would, and neither wants to, for theyare creatures of the most inoftensive sort. On the head of thedealfish, where the oarfish has its mane, is a long, streamer-likefin. At the end of the tail, instead of the ordinary caudal fin,is a long, slim fin which projects directly upwards at rightangles to the direction of the back-bone. No o|her fish showsthis strange peculiarity. The dealfish swims in the open sea close to the surface ofthe water. It does not often come near shore, but it is occa-sionally blown on the beach by storms. Trachypterus rex-salmonormn has been recorded two or three times from PugetSound and twice from California. The finest specimen known,the one from which our figure is taken, was secured off the Faral-lones in 1895 by a fisherman named W. C. Knox, and by himsent to Stanford University. The specimen is perfect in all itsparts, a condition rare with these fragile creatures, and itspicture gives a good idea of the mysterious king of the -I c =S 3 *
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