. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 466 FISHES an enormous size, and are among the largest of Fishes. CeratoTpUra vamfyrus of the West Indies, for example, grows to a width of 20 feet, and an embryo extracted from the oviduct of a gravid female 15 feet wide, and from 3 to 4 feet in thick- ness, measured 5 feet across the disc and weighed twenty pounds.' This Fish is much dreaded by the divers engaged in. Fig. 266 —The Eagle-Ray, Myliobatis aquila. the pearl fisheries near Panama, whom it is said to devour after enveloping them with its vast wings.^ The family is exclusively Tertiary, and
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 466 FISHES an enormous size, and are among the largest of Fishes. CeratoTpUra vamfyrus of the West Indies, for example, grows to a width of 20 feet, and an embryo extracted from the oviduct of a gravid female 15 feet wide, and from 3 to 4 feet in thick- ness, measured 5 feet across the disc and weighed twenty pounds.' This Fish is much dreaded by the divers engaged in. Fig. 266 —The Eagle-Ray, Myliobatis aquila. the pearl fisheries near Panama, whom it is said to devour after enveloping them with its vast wings.^ The family is exclusively Tertiary, and with the exception of an extinct genus, Promyliohatis, from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, all the fossil species belong to the existing genera Myliohatis, Hhinoptera, and Aetobatis. Order V. Holocephali. The propriety of including the Holocephali in the sub-class Elasmobranchii is scarcely open to doubt. Like the Acanthodei ^ Gunther, op. cit. p. 348. ^ Dumeril, quoted by Jordan and Everraann, op. cit. ji. 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 Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), Sir, 1862- ed; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927. ed. [London, Macmillan and Co. , Limited; New York, The Macmillan Company
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