Fishes . furitiiida. Puerto Hico. fishes, but united by suture and soldered to the cranium. Asin true eels, the shoulder-girdle is remote from the skull. The. Fig. 884.—Moray, Oi/mnollinrnx moringii Hlo( li. Family ^Iiinvniihv. Tortugas. head is set on a snake-like neck. Tlie single species representingthe family DerichthyiJcc was found in the abysmal depths ofthe Gulf Stream. Order Lyomeri, or Gulpers.—Still more aVierrcnt and in manyrespects extraordinary are the eels of the order or suborderLyomeri {Xv6i, loose; ^lepos, part), known as are degenerate forms, possibly degraded f
Fishes . furitiiida. Puerto Hico. fishes, but united by suture and soldered to the cranium. Asin true eels, the shoulder-girdle is remote from the skull. The. Fig. 884.—Moray, Oi/mnollinrnx moringii Hlo( li. Family ^Iiinvniihv. Tortugas. head is set on a snake-like neck. Tlie single species representingthe family DerichthyiJcc was found in the abysmal depths ofthe Gulf Stream. Order Lyomeri, or Gulpers.—Still more aVierrcnt and in manyrespects extraordinary are the eels of the order or suborderLyomeri {Xv6i, loose; ^lepos, part), known as are degenerate forms, possibly degraded from some con-ger-like type, but characterized by an extreme looseness ofstructure unique among fishes. The gill-arches arc reducedto five small bars of bone, not attached to the skull, the pala-topterygoid arch is wholl) wanting, the premaxillaries are The Apodes, or Eel-like Fishes 375 wanting, as in all true eels, and the maxillaries loosely joinedto the skull. The symplectic bone is wanting, and the lower jawis so hinged to the skull that it swings freely in various direc-tions. In place of the lateral line are singular appendages.
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