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Updated: May 27, 2025
But in most other features they approach nearer to the fishes, and are inferior to the amphibia. Externally they are entirely fish-like. Young ceratodus, shortly after issuing from the egg, magnified ten times. k gill-cover, l liver. Young ceratodus six weeks after issuing from the egg. s spiral fold of gut, b rudimentary belly-fin. In the Dipneusts the head is not marked off from the trunk.
For the silvery river-trout lying there carried a forked willow-twig between gill and gill-cover. Nor was this all; the fish was fresh-caught, for the gills had not puffed out, nor the supple body stiffened. Every little wavelet rippled its slim and limber length; and a thread of blood trailed from the throat-latch out over the surface of the water.
The Weaver is dreaded by fishermen; for the spines on its back fin, as well as the one on its gill-cover, cause poisoned wounds. They are grooved, to hold a very poisonous slime. Some fish have the power to kill their prey, and stun their enemies, at a distance! Instead of a spiny defence, they are armed with electricity! It is a clumsy fish about a yard long, and very ugly.
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