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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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300 PISCES. Pilot-fish of the Mediterranean is not above a foot long; but it is swift and voracious, and follows in the wake ofships along- with the Shark, which it has been erroneously supposed to lead, and hence its name of Ductor. Ablack species of the South American coasts has been found eight or nine feet long. Educates, form and dorsal spines like the last, but the head flattened, and the keel and anal spines wanting. Lic/iia, has dorsal and anal spines on the back, one of the former lying flat and directed forwards, but the bodyis compressed, and no keels on the tail. There are several species in the Mediterranean, all eatable, and some oflarge size. Trachinotus merely has the body a little more elevated, and the dorsal and anal longer and morepointed. Rhynchobdella. Spines as in the former genus, long body, and no ventrals. The subgenera are,— Macrogiiathtts: has a pointed, cartilaginous muzzle, projecting beyond the lower jaw, and the dorsal and analseparate from the caudal
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