subbrachian

Updated: May 25, 2025

The same day an odd fishing practice further increased the Nautilus's stores, so full of game were these seas. Our trawl brought up in its meshes a number of fish whose heads were topped by little oval slabs with fleshy edges. These were suckerfish from the third family of the subbrachian Malacopterygia.

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea