Barriers to Dispersion of Fresh-water Fishes: Local Barriers.
In the allies of the carp and catfish, which form the majority of fresh-water fishes, its anterior end is connected through a chain of modified vertebrae to the ear.
Leuckart disputes this identity, and compares Lambl’s worm with the Echinorhynchus angustatus of our fresh-water fishes.
Another cestode of general interest is the Tricuspidaria (Triænophorus) nodulosus, infesting many of our fresh-water fishes.
Amongst fresh-water fishes the Cucullanidæ play an important rôle.
It includes most of our fresh-water fishes, a great number of marine species, and many like the salmon, which betake themselves to the rivers in the spawning season to deposit their ova.
The naturalists of the present day know upwards of thirteen thousand, a tenth of which are fresh-water fishes.
The Gymnotes are fresh-water fishes of South America, where they attain a great size.
Defn: A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel.
One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidæ, esp.
Defn: A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.
A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.
The Characidæ constitute the majority of the fresh-water fishes in those regions which have neither Cyprinidæ nor Salmonidæ.
To the Ostariophysi belong the vast majority of the fresh-water fishes of the world.
Others have found affinities with the sticklebacks, and still others with the singular fresh-water fishes called Mastacembelus.
The largest of all fresh-water fishes is Arapaima gigas of the Amazon region, which reaches a length of fifteen feet and a weight of 400 pounds.
It may not be out of place to say that the generic term "bass" is connected only with salt-water fishes in the Southern states.
Eigenmann, "A Catalogue of the Fresh-water Fishes of South America," Proc.
His work is almost entirely limited to European and chiefly to Mediterranean forms, and comprises no fewer than one hundred and ninety-seven marine and forty-seven fresh-water fishes.
The fresh-water fishes, however, invite to such attempts.
THE ROACH This is one of the prettiest of the European fresh-water fishes, which is found in many lakes and streams.
Now we come to the true fishes; and perhaps our best plan will be to read about some of the fresh-water fishes first, and afterward about some of those which live in the sea.
Footnote 1: Of the fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Cyprinidæ, there are about eighteen species from Ceylon in the collection of the British Museum.
Footnote 1: I have collected into a note, which will be found in the appendix to this chapter, the opinions entertained by the Greeks and Romans upon this habit of the fresh-water fishes of India.
Born upon an anatomy and natural history of the fresh-water fishes of Europe.
Finally, the plates for the first number of my "Fresh-Water Fishes" are in great part finished, and also included in my package for Newcastle.
Probably the plates of the "Fresh-Water Fishes" and other illustrated publications.
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