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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A RECORD SUNFISH By Bashford Dean THE Museum has recently acquired a mounted specimen of a monster sea sunfish, Mola mola, which was taken in 1910 off the coast of southern California. It appears that its captor, Mr. D. H. Buxton, "hooked it while angling." The sunfish has the reputation of being one of the most abnormal of queer ^^ fishes. Itisdisc- shaped, and appears "all g; i ^^ head." It has lost the hinder trunk region f ; H» and with this the spinal cord —to a degree Bjj & indeed unique among back-boned animals. M ' A.. Thus the spinal cord of a sunfish a yard long M j i ' . ' ft measures only a small fraction of an inch in M length. Sunfishes are typically open- ff sea forms, seen
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10 feet in length 11 feet in vertical measurement occasionally from the deck of sometimes swimming at the sides, and sometimes tilted, "scale" obliquely into the turbed and are said sometimes the surface like porpoises. But is known of their habits. It to explain the "adaptations" an ocean liner, surface on their They usually water when dis- to jump above in general little is not possible which this fish is supposed to have undergone, and the steps in its evolution. Several of its earlier stages however, are known and they show how the tail re- gion comes to be changed. Furthermore a clue as to the*." cause" of its modifications was obtained by chance when the puzzle of the repro- 370

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1913
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  • bookid:americanmuseumjo13amer
  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:392
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:americana
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