. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatori, describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing : illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. GENERAL REMARKS ON FISH. 57 the belly; in the Acanthopterygii, they are just below the pectorals, or very near them; the anal fin in both is just behind the anus or vent; the caudal, the hindmost fin, is commonly called
. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatori, describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing : illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. GENERAL REMARKS ON FISH. 57 the belly; in the Acanthopterygii, they are just below the pectorals, or very near them; the anal fin in both is just behind the anus or vent; the caudal, the hindmost fin, is commonly called the Of fish that corae under the notice of the angler, the Mala- copterygii embrace those that are called " abdominal,'''' from having the ventral-fins on the belly. The Acanthopterygii include the ''thoracic,'''' which have the ventrals near the throat. Some families of the former division have only one dorsal fin, others two, and some even three, as the Codfish. The Acanthopterygii have either one or two dorsals; if only one, the anterior rays are spinous, and the posterior soft and flexible; if they have two dorsals, the first is composed of sharp spines, and the second of rays, or one or two spines followed by soft rays: this division has also one or more spines on the pectorals and on the anal fin. With the excep- tion of the Salmonidse and Esocidee, nearly all of the game- fish the angler meets with, belong to the Acanthopterygii. The Acanthopterj^gii belong to the order of Ctenoids, and the Malacopterygii mostly to the 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 Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Philadelphia : E. H. Butler
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