Guide leaflet

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Identifier: scienceguide7692amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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means of which the fish clings to rocks.In the )lud Skipper, Feriophthalmus, the breast fins are modifiedinto flippers and the fish skips about on these over the mud fiats ol
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Fig. 13. Periophthalmus, the Mud-Skipper. Drawn by D. Blakely. eastern tropical rivers. Its eyes are greatly enlarged and protrudingIn the Blind Goby of California, on the other hand, the eyes are reducecto mere vestiges and the fish lives like a slug under the rocks. In size the Gobies vary from the minute Mistichthys of the Philip-pines, which measures only twelve to fourteen millimeters in length, tcthe Eleotris viarmorata of Siam, which grows to nearly three feet. TheGobies differ from the cheek-armored group in lacking the bony stay olthe cheek. Cods, Hakes, Rat-tails, etc. (Sub-Order Anacanthini). (Case 30)These mulluscous, obese offshoots of the vigorous spiny-finned order arf TIIK WORLD OF FISHES 45 liighly ypocializod, and in many respects clej:;iaded. J^ven in the rat-tailed Grenadiers (Macrurids) which are less specialized than the Cods^the true tail fin has been lost and the hind end of the body has l)eenprolonged into a trailing wisp. In the Cods and their allies, the tai

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