. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE LAMPREY. 293 Although popularly called Bony Pike, from the mailed exterior and the lengthened wide- jawed form, which has some resemblance to that of a pike, this fish belongs to a totally different order, and in most points of its construction is formed after a different fashion. The general structure, indeed, of the Bony Pike is very remarkable, and affords another instance of the difficulty with which the fish are classed. The body is elongated, and the jaws are also lengthened an
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE LAMPREY. 293 Although popularly called Bony Pike, from the mailed exterior and the lengthened wide- jawed form, which has some resemblance to that of a pike, this fish belongs to a totally different order, and in most points of its construction is formed after a different fashion. The general structure, indeed, of the Bony Pike is very remarkable, and affords another instance of the difficulty with which the fish are classed. The body is elongated, and the jaws are also lengthened and well furnished with teeth, looking very like an exaggerated pike's mouth, or tlie head of the common gaviul of the Ganges. In each jaw there is a single I'ow of sharp and conical teeth, and between them, and on the palate, are numerous other teeth, much smaller in size. The scales of the Bony Pike are rhombic in form, very like the flat porcelain tiles with which certain ancient chimney-pieces were wont to be decorated, and liardly inferior to those tiles in the polished hardness of their exterior. They are very regularly arranged, being set BO as to form a series of oblique rows, extending from the back to the abdomen. As in the sturgeons and sharks, the vertebral column runs along the upper edge of the tail fin. This fish is found in the lakes of America, and sometimes attains a considerable size, being .idm'imw ^. 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 Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888; Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer; Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history; National Zoological Park (U. S. ), former owner. DSI. New York : Selmar Hess
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