. Fishes. Fishes. 5°° Cavallas and Pampanos resembling a berycoid, but with the ventral rays I, 5, occurs in the Upper Cretaceous. Closely related to this is Berycopsis elegans, with smoother scales, from the English Chalk. Gobiomorus gronovii (usually called Nomeus gronovii), the Portuguese man-of-war-fish, is a neat little fish about three inches long, common in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream, where it hides from its enemies among the poisoned tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war. Under the Portuguese m^an-of- war and also in or under large jelly-fishes several other species are fo
. Fishes. Fishes. 5°° Cavallas and Pampanos resembling a berycoid, but with the ventral rays I, 5, occurs in the Upper Cretaceous. Closely related to this is Berycopsis elegans, with smoother scales, from the English Chalk. Gobiomorus gronovii (usually called Nomeus gronovii), the Portuguese man-of-war-fish, is a neat little fish about three inches long, common in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream, where it hides from its enemies among the poisoned tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war. Under the Portuguese m^an-of- war and also in or under large jelly-fishes several other species are found, notably Carangus medusicola and Peprilus paru. Many small species of Psenes, a related genus, also abound in the warm currents from tropical seas. The Rag-fishes: Icosteidae. — Allied to the butter-fishes are the deep-water Icosteidcu, fishes of soft, limp bodies as unre- sistent as a wet rag, Icosteus miigmaticus of the California coast being known as ragfish. Schedophilns medusophagus feeds on medusee and salpa, living on the surface in the deep seas. Mr. Ogilby thus speaks of a specimen taken in Ireland: "It was the most delicate adult fish I ever handled; within twenty-four hours after its capture the skin of the belly and the intestines fell off when it was lifted, and it felt in the hand quite soft and ; A related species (5. heathi) has been lately taken by Dr. Charles H. Gilbert at Monterey in Cahfornia. The family of Acrotida contains a single species of large size. Acrotus willoHghbyi, allied to Icosteus, but without ventral fins and with the vertebra very numerous. The type, five and one-. FiG. 390. — Portuguese Man-of-war Fish, (iobiomorus gronovii. Family 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 Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. New York, H. Holt
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