. Creatures of the sea [microform] : being the life stories of some sea birds, beasts, and fishes. Marine animals; Marine fishes; Faune marine; Poissons de mer. '--^^'â Deep'Sea Chlmaeras so that while they may be pushed mward to adtjiit of the entrance of proy. they effectually prevent it fioin coming out. This peculiarity is explained by a slight examination of the creature's feeding habits. It can and docs swallow entire fish actually larger than itselfâ which sounds impossible, but it is not. For the belly of this atrocious glutton is like an iiidia-rublxjr bladder which may be expanded am
. Creatures of the sea [microform] : being the life stories of some sea birds, beasts, and fishes. Marine animals; Marine fishes; Faune marine; Poissons de mer. '--^^'â Deep'Sea Chlmaeras so that while they may be pushed mward to adtjiit of the entrance of proy. they effectually prevent it fioin coming out. This peculiarity is explained by a slight examination of the creature's feeding habits. It can and docs swallow entire fish actually larger than itselfâ which sounds impossible, but it is not. For the belly of this atrocious glutton is like an iiidia-rublxjr bladder which may be expanded amazingly. And consequently by dint of perseverance Chiasmodon can and does draw himself on to the body of another fish, as it were, until the visitor is snugly coiled away in that expanding bag, which being transparent, shows plainly from the outside the position of its occupant. In other respects Chiasmodon is rather an elegant fish, quite normally fish-hke, which one would hardly expect, considering the great depths from which it has been brought. The ' Challenger's ' trawl brought up one in mid-Atlantic from a depth of one thousand five hundred fathoms, or nine thousand feet. Another specimen was brought up from a depth of three hun- dred and twelve fathoms, neai Madeira. But several have been found floating upon the sea-surface, having succumbed to a very natural disaster considering their habit of gorging, namely, they have burst! And the tissues becoming inflated with gas have rapidly raised the dead mass from the immense depths in which it has lived to the revealing glare of day, to become the wonder and awe of us beings of the surface. This extraordinary creature is one of the best known and most fully described of all the abyssal fish, as it is certainly one of the most wonderful. Two very peculiar little fish next demand notice from the fact that, although very similar in size, in outline, and in depth of habitat, they have in certain respects the most widely marked
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