. Zoology for high schools and colleges. Zoology. 462 ZOOLOGY. ventral fins are usually absent. They are inhabitants of warm waters. The trunk-fish or box-fish, Lactophrys trigomis Poey, is a West Indian fish ; one specimen has appeared at [Holmes' Hole, Mass. The porcupine - fish {CMUchtht/s â turgidus Gill) and smooth puffer {Tetrodon Icevigatus Gill) and the spring box-fish {Chilomycterus geometricus Kaup). Fig. 425.âSun-fish, Mola rotunda, one eighteenth natural size.âAfter Pntnam. range from Cape Cod to Florida. The sun-fish {Mola ro- tunda Cuvier, Fig. 435) is, like the others of the ord
. Zoology for high schools and colleges. Zoology. 462 ZOOLOGY. ventral fins are usually absent. They are inhabitants of warm waters. The trunk-fish or box-fish, Lactophrys trigomis Poey, is a West Indian fish ; one specimen has appeared at [Holmes' Hole, Mass. The porcupine - fish {CMUchtht/s â turgidus Gill) and smooth puffer {Tetrodon Icevigatus Gill) and the spring box-fish {Chilomycterus geometricus Kaup). Fig. 425.âSun-fish, Mola rotunda, one eighteenth natural size.âAfter Pntnam. range from Cape Cod to Florida. The sun-fish {Mola ro- tunda Cuvier, Fig. 435) is, like the others of the order, a surf ace - swimmer. It is sometimes a metre or more in length, weighing five hundred pounds or more. Allied forms are Orthagoriscus ohlongus (Fig. 436) and the globe-. 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 Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring), 1839-1905. New York, H. Holt and Company
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