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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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pecies, of an olive colour, with brown spots, and it sometimes attains the length of three feet.]Anarrichas. [So very similar did Cuvier consider these fish to the Blennies, that he was disposed to consider them as Blennies without ventral fins.] Their dor-sal fin IS composed entirely of simple but not stiflrajs, and extends, as does also the anal, very closeto the base of the caudal, which last, as well as the?^-^KCTKy – pectorals, is rounded Tlie whole body is soft and^^-^^g^Sg^g^iS^^^^^^^^^ shmy. Their parietal bones, vomer, and man- dibles, are hard, with stout bony tubercles, sur-FiK 141 -Auarnchas lupu. mounted by smaU enamel teeth ; but their front teeth are much larger and conical. This structure of the teeth gives them an armature, which, added to their largesize, makes them both fierce and dangerous fishes. They have six rays in the gills; stomach short and fleshy,with the pyrolus near its base ; the intestines short, wide, and without coeca ; and they have no air bladder.
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AC.VXTIIOPTERVGII. .-51 )7 A. lupus, the Sea Wolf, or Sea Cat, is the most common species: it inhabits the north seas, and is very ofxonmet with; attnininff the length of six or Beven feet. Its colour is brown, clouded with darker. Its llo^hresembles that of an Eel. It is verj valuable to the Icelanders, who salt its flesh for food, employ its skin asshagreen, and make use of its gall as soap. [This larRC and formidable species is almost exclusively confined tothe northern seas, and in appearance it is a very repulsive fish. Its body is thick and lumbering, while the formof the pectorn-ls, the colours of the front, the proximate position of the eyes, and the (jreat teeth, give it much theappearance of a Cat, or even of one of the more formidable animals of that family. Its manners accord with itsaspect, for it is remarkably strong, very active, and equally ready to defend itself or attack an enemy. It ofWnenters the fishernuMrs nets for the purpose of plundering them of the entangled
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