The original piscine condition of the veins is not long retained.
A difficulty of this view is the fact that it involves our supposing that the radial edge of the limb corresponds with the metapterygial edge of the piscine fin.
In Amphibia the piscine condition is most nearly retained[229].
In view of our imperfect knowledge of the development of most Piscine skulls I would refrain from expressing a decided opinion in favour of either of these alternatives.
In the persistent vertebral constriction of the notochord Mammals retain a more primitive and piscine mode of formation of the vertebral column than the majority either of the Reptilia or Amphibia.
After the heart has reached the piscine stage, the auricular section (Bombinator) becomes prolonged into a right and left auricular appendage.
The trunk has the usual compressed piscine form, and there is a well-developed dorsal fin continuous round the end of the tail, with a ventral fin.
In all the representations of a deity having a combined human and piscine form, the original idea was that of a person coming out of a fish--not being part of one, but issuing from it, as Noah issued from the ark.
The god Dagon of the Philistines, and the goddess Atergatis of the Syrians were worshipped under the same combination of the human and piscine forms, and the Tritons of classical mythology perpetuated the idea.
With the Romans, this fish occupied a respectable rank among the piscine tribes, and in Britain it has at various periods stood high in public favour.
He leaned forward and fixed the tabletop with a piscine stare.
The Old Man was astonished as the Senator, who sat with gaping piscine mouth and pop eyes.
There seems no reason to doubt that modern fish, as a whole, quite equal in size the piscine fauna of any previous geological age.
There it browses on myrtle leaves and grasses, and otherwise behaves itself in a manner wholly unbecoming its piscine antecedents and aquatic education.
They do not swim in the vortex of piscine dissipation.
But too much space would be taken up if I were to recount all the piscine marvels that he relates.
Most of the species are entozoal; but many adhere to the surface of the body of piscine hosts.
Having in a direct manner gained access to the perivisceral cavity of Cyclops, they remain coiled within the intermediate bearer until it has been pursued, captured, and transferred to the stomach of the ultimate or piscine host.
From the large number of species of Echinorhynchi infesting our fresh-water fishes, they present quite a feature of piscine parasitism.
In addition to these distomes there are numerouspiscine flukes which may fairly be relegated to other genera.
As for fishes, if entozoa be a proof of cachexia, then it follows that the normal condition of all piscine hosts is a diseased state.
Duchamp has recorded a fatal piscine epizoöty amongst tenches (Tinca vulgaris), occurring in the ponds of La Bresse.
The radials of the hinder paired limb did so more constantly, and ultimately prolonged themselves inwards by mesiad growth from their coalesced base, till the piscine pelvic structure arose, as, e.
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