Fishes . ^^ 207 —Euri/pholis jreyeri Heekel. Family Enchodnnlida. Cretaceous.(After Heekel; the restoration of the jaws incorrect.) (Niobrara) deposits of Kansas. Empo nepaholica is one of thebest-known species. The Stemoptychidae. — The Skrnoptychidcc differ materi-ally from all these forms in the short, compressed, deep bodyand distorted form. The teeth are small, the body brightsilvery, with luminous spots. The species live in the deepseas, rising in dark or stormy weather. Sternoptyx diaphana isfound in almost all seas, and species of Argyropelecus are almost. Fig. 268.—Monstrous Gol
Fishes . ^^ 207 —Euri/pholis jreyeri Heekel. Family Enchodnnlida. Cretaceous.(After Heekel; the restoration of the jaws incorrect.) (Niobrara) deposits of Kansas. Empo nepaholica is one of thebest-known species. The Stemoptychidae. — The Skrnoptychidcc differ materi-ally from all these forms in the short, compressed, deep bodyand distorted form. The teeth are small, the body brightsilvery, with luminous spots. The species live in the deepseas, rising in dark or stormy weather. Sternoptyx diaphana isfound in almost all seas, and species of Argyropelecus are almost. Fig. 268.—Monstrous Goldfish (bred in .lapaii), Carassius uuruius (.Liuiia-us). (After Giinther.) as widely distributed. After the earthquakes in 1896, whichengulfed the fishing villages of Rikuzen, in northern Japan, The Grayling and the Smelt 361 floating numerous specimens of this species were found dead,on the water, by the steamer Albatross. The IdiacanthidcB are small deep-sea fishes, eel-shaped andwithout pectorals, related to the Iniomi. Order Lyopomi.—Other deep-sea fishes constitute the orderor suborder Lyopomi (Afds, loose; n^fxa, opercle). These areelongate fishes having no mesocoracoid, and the preoperclerudimentary and connected only with the lower jaw, the large
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