. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. 214 Acanthopterygii; Synentognathi with short ventral fins not used for flight. It is perhaps the most widely distributed of all, ranging through almost all warm seas. Parexoccetus brachypterus, still smaller, and with shorter, grasshopper-like wings, is also very widely distributed. An ex- cellent account of the flying-fishes of the world has been given by Dr. C. F. Liitken (1876), the University of Copenhagen,. Fig. 169.—Catalina Flying-fish, Cypselurus californicus (Cooper). Santa Barbara. which institution has received a remarkably
. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. 214 Acanthopterygii; Synentognathi with short ventral fins not used for flight. It is perhaps the most widely distributed of all, ranging through almost all warm seas. Parexoccetus brachypterus, still smaller, and with shorter, grasshopper-like wings, is also very widely distributed. An ex- cellent account of the flying-fishes of the world has been given by Dr. C. F. Liitken (1876), the University of Copenhagen,. Fig. 169.—Catalina Flying-fish, Cypselurus californicus (Cooper). Santa Barbara. which institution has received a remarkably fine series from trading-ships returning to that port. Later accounts have been given by Jordan and Meek, and by Jordan and Ever- mann. Very few fossil Exoccetidcs are fotind. Species of Sconibresox and Hemirhamphus are found in the Tertiary, the earliest being Hemirhamphus edwardsi from the Eocene of Monte Bolca. No fossil flying-fishes are known, and the genera, Exoccetus, Exo- nautes, and Cypselurus are doubtless all of very recent 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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