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Title: Handbook of the marine and freshwater fishes of the British Islands : (including an enumeration of every species)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Kent, W. Saville (William Saville), d. 1908 Holdsworth, Edmund Willam Hunt, 1829-1915. Apparatus for fishing Walpole, Spencer, Sir, 1839-1907. British fish trade Bertram, James Glass, 1824-1892. Unappreciated fisher folk, their round of life and labour Fryer, Charles Edward. Salmon fisheries
Subjects: Fisheries Fishes Fish trade
Publisher: London : W. Clowes and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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erally characterised. A somewhat interesting fact-was elicited by the writer while making some colouredsketches of the individuals just referred to. Two exampleswere at this time isolated in separate glass receptacles somefew yards apart, when unexpectedly a sharp little snappingnoise was heard at short and regular intervals to proceedfrom one of the vases placed on a side table, and to which aresponse in a like manner was almost immediately made from OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 101 the vase close at hand. On seeking for the cause, the soundwas found to proceed from the mouths of the little Hippocampi,which were thus conversing with, or signalling to, one another.The noise observed was produced by the muscular closingand sudden expansion of the lower jaw, and much re-sembled in strength and tone the snapping sound producedfor a similar purpose, but in this instance with its claw, bythe little scarlet Prawn (Alpheus ruber), found in theChannel Islands. A difficulty in keeping Sea-Horses is
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FIG. 24.—EXOTIC SEA-HORSE (Phyllopteryx eques). usually presented in connection with their food supply,they subsisting naturally on small Crustacea, such as Sand-hoppers (Gammarus), and the Opossum Shrimp (Mysis).Such supply failing in Manchester, the writer improviseda successful substitute in the form of the larvae of thecommon gnat (Culex pipiens), and other water insects. Amuch larger type, obtained in the Mediterranean, and oftenexhibited in aquaria, is the Branched Sea-Horse (Hip-pocampus ramolosus), ornamented about the head and neckwith long filamentous processes that may be likened to io2 MARINE AND FRESHWATER FISHES a mane. In an allied, but still more extraordinary-Australian type (Phyllopteryx eques), represented in theaccompanying engraving (Fig. 24), leaflike appendages ofthe integument are produced so luxuriantly from variouspoints of the surface of the body that the animal isscarcely to be distinguished from a branch of sea-weed. SUB-ORDER Y.—Plectognathi. Body cov

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