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Title: The aquarium : its inhabitants, structure, and management
Identifier: aquariumitsinhab00tayl (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Taylor, J. E. (John Ellor), 1837-1895
Subjects: Aquariums; Freshwater animals
Publisher: Edinburgh : John Grant
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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LUMP SUCKER. 201 if they were chickens. Their frolicsome ways make the young exceedingly interesting and amusing objects. The male fish is believed to " mount guard" over the eggs, after the fashion set by the little stickleback. Some of the lump fish often weigh ten or twelve pounds when full grown. Speaking of the stickleback reminds us of a common species, generally known as the "fifteen- spined stickleback" (Gasterosteusspinacliici), the largest ^^^H • Fig. 133.
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Fiftcen-spined Stickleback (Gastoosteiis spinaehid). of its kind. This pretty fish is never more than six inches in length, but its body is exceedingly long in comparison with its breadth, so that it can dart through the water with the rapidity of an arrow. Like its fresh-water relative, this fish constructs, and even stitches and glues together, a nest, usually of sea-weed, and the male defends the eggs laid there so determinedly that he appears to be an animated arrow, constructed for the special purpose of "charging" other and huger fishes desirous of making a meal of the nutritious ova. Its spines are capable of inflicting

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