. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. Fig. 114.—Gymnothorax jordani (E\-ermann & Marsh). Family Muncnida. Puerto Rico. fishes, but tuiited by suture and soldered to the cranium. As in true eels, the shoulder-girdle is remote from the skull. The. Fig. —Moray, Gymnothorax moringo Rloch. Familj' Mnra-nidcr. Tortiigas. head is set on a snake-like neck. The single species representing the family Dertchthyidcs was found in the abj^smal depths of the Gulf vStream. Order Lyomeri, or Gulpers.—Still more aberrent and in many respects extraordinary are the eels of the order
. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. Fig. 114.—Gymnothorax jordani (E\-ermann & Marsh). Family Muncnida. Puerto Rico. fishes, but tuiited by suture and soldered to the cranium. As in true eels, the shoulder-girdle is remote from the skull. The. Fig. —Moray, Gymnothorax moringo Rloch. Familj' Mnra-nidcr. Tortiigas. head is set on a snake-like neck. The single species representing the family Dertchthyidcs was found in the abj^smal depths of the Gulf vStream. Order Lyomeri, or Gulpers.—Still more aberrent and in many respects extraordinary are the eels of the order or suborder Lyomeri {Xvoi, loose; juepo?, part), known as "; These are degenerate forms, possibly degraded from some con- ger-like type, but characterized by an extreme looseness of structure unique among fishes. The gill-arches are reduced to five srnall bars of bone, not attached to the skull, the pala- topterygoid arch is wholly wanting, the premaxillaries are. 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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