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GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF FISHES
VARIATIONS IN THE COLOR OF FISHES

The Oniokose or Demon Stinger, Inimicus japonicus (Cuv. and Val.), from Wakanoura, Japan. From nature by Kako Morita.

Surface coloration about lava rocks.

Coloration of specimens living among red algæ.

Coloration in deep water; Inimicus aurantiacus (Schlegel).
A GUIDE
 TO
 THE STUDY OF FISHES
BY
DAVID STARR JORDAN
President of Leland Stanford Junior University
With Colored Frontispieces and 507 Illustrations
IN TWO VOLUMES
Vol II.
"I am the wiser in respect to all knowledge
and the better qualified for all fortunes
for knowing that there is a minnow in that
brook."—Thoreau
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1905
Copyright, 1905
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published March, 1905
v
CONTENTS
VOL. II.
CHAPTER I.
THE GANOIDS.
PAGE
Subclass Actinopteri.—The Series Ganoidei.—Are the Ganoids a Natural Group?—Systematic Position of Lepidosteus.—Gill on the Ganoids as a Natural Group.1
 
CHAPTER II.
THE GANOIDS (Continued).
Classification of Ganoids.—Order Lysopteri.—The Palæoniscidæ.—The Platysomidæ.—The Dorypteridæ.—The Dictyopygidæ.—Order Chondrostei.—Order Selachostomi: the Paddle-fishes.—Order Pycnodonti.—Order Lepidostei.—Family Lepisosteidæ.—Embryology of the Garpike.—Fossil Garpikes.—Order Halecomorphi.—Pachycormidæ.—The Bowfins: Amiidæ.—The Oligopleuridæ.13
 
CHAPTER III.
ISOSPONDYLI.
The Subclass Teleostei, or Bony Fishes.—Order Isospondyli.—The Classification of the Bony Fishes.—Relationships of Isospondyli.—The Clupeoidea.—The Leptolepidæ.—The Elopidæ.—The A                        
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