. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms; . photo hy A. LjX^ PAINTED EELS FROM BERMUDA More than eighty species of these jiihes are knoiun Photo i>y N. (i CAT-FISHES These belong to the unarmoureJ group 251 {NiW nri. INflu nri 2^1 252 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD species are held in no little fear by fishermen and bathers, attacks from these fishes being byno means rare. Their distribution is closel> similar to that of the Serpent-eels. The Electric Eel is an extremel\- abundant fish in the ri\ers and lagoons of Brazil andthe Guianas. It
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms; . photo hy A. LjX^ PAINTED EELS FROM BERMUDA More than eighty species of these jiihes are knoiun Photo i>y N. (i CAT-FISHES These belong to the unarmoureJ group 251 {NiW nri. INflu nri 2^1 252 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD species are held in no little fear by fishermen and bathers, attacks from these fishes being byno means rare. Their distribution is closel> similar to that of the Serpent-eels. The Electric Eel is an extremel\- abundant fish in the ri\ers and lagoons of Brazil andthe Guianas. It is the most powerful of the electric fishes, and attains a length of 6 electric organs of this fish are sufficiently strong to kill by their shock other fishes ande\-en mammals. The traveler Humboldt is responsible for the statement, now generally , that the Indians procured this fish b)^ driving horses into the water, and so pro\-okingsuch violent discharges from the fish that the\- became exhausted and fell an eas}- prey. The C.\T-K1SHES, or She.\TH-FISHES, are an extremely interesting group, one of the principalcharacteristics of which is the total absence of scales, the bod}- being either entireh nakedor armed with bony tubercles or
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