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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library


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Text Appearing Before Image: tunately not to theextent of annihilation. The sunfishes1 have a percoid form, but have only onedorsal rln instead of two. They live in fresh water, have 1 Fio-. 215. 236 ZOOLOGY rapacious habits, are brilliantly colored, and build nests inthe sand, which both male and female watch over and defend with courage. Some speciesliving in the Great Lakes are knownas black bass or rock bass. Thesmall New England species, with thebrilliant red edge to the operculum,is called pumpkin-seed. The toadfishes (Fig. 216) arerepresented in our faunas by acommon species which lives understones in harbors and attaches itseggs to the under side of stones. Itis a vigorous fighter. The sculpin (Fig. 217) is closelyrelated to the toadfish. Like thelatter it has a broad head and nearlyscaleless body. The pectorals arelarge, and the two dorsals extendalong the greater part of the back.Allied to the foregoing is the rock eel (Fig. 218), whichis sometimes brought up in the seine from a depth of 8 to10 fathoms.

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 216. —Batrachus tau,the toadfish. Dorsalview. Two-thirds nat.size. Photo, by W. H.C. P.


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