. Zoology : for students and general readers . Zoology. 4Ga ZOOLOGY. ventral fins are usually absent. They are inhabitants of warm waters. The trunk-fish or box-fish, Ladophrys irigofius Poey, is a West Indian fish ; one specimen has appeared at Holmes' Hole, Mass. The porcupine-fish {ChilicMliys turgidus Gill) and smooth pnfl'er (Tefrodon Iwvigaius Gill) and the spring box-fish {Chiloinycterun geo^netrictis Kaup). Fig. 426.—Sun-flsh, Mola rotunda, one eighteenth natural size.—After Putnam. range from Cape Cod to Florida. The sun-fish [Mola ro- tunda Cuvier, Fig. 435) is, like the others of th
. Zoology : for students and general readers . Zoology. 4Ga ZOOLOGY. ventral fins are usually absent. They are inhabitants of warm waters. The trunk-fish or box-fish, Ladophrys irigofius Poey, is a West Indian fish ; one specimen has appeared at Holmes' Hole, Mass. The porcupine-fish {ChilicMliys turgidus Gill) and smooth pnfl'er (Tefrodon Iwvigaius Gill) and the spring box-fish {Chiloinycterun geo^netrictis Kaup). Fig. 426.—Sun-flsh, Mola rotunda, one eighteenth natural size.—After Putnam. range from Cape Cod to Florida. The sun-fish [Mola ro- tunda Cuvier, Fig. 435) is, like the others of the order, a surface-swimmer. It is sometimes a metre or more in length, weighing five hundred pounds or more. Allied forms are Orlhagoriscus obloiiyus (Fig. 436) and the globe-. 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 Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring), 1839-1905. New York : Henry Holt
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