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Index 



Asterospondyli, i, 447, 510, 



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order of, i, 525 

 asterospondylous, i, 49 

 Asterosteidae, i, 584, 585 

 Asterosteus, i, 585 

 Asterropteryx, i, 263 

 Astrodermiidae, i, 551 

 Astrodermus, i, 551 

 Astrolabe, the, i, 408 

 Astrolytes, 



figure of, ii, 442 

 Astronesthidae, ii, 128 

 Astra pe, i, 554 

 Astroscopus, ii, 503 



Gilbert on, i, 187 



electric organs of, i, 187 

 Asymmetron, i, 483; ii, 467 

 Ateleaspis, i, 574 

 Atheresthes, i, 205; ii, 491 

 Atherina, i, 393; ii, 216 

 Atherinidas, i, 290; ii, 215 

 Atherinops, ii, 218 

 Atherinopsis, 



figure of, ii, 218 

 Atherinosoma, ii, 218 

 Athlennes, ii, 211 

 Atka fish, 



figure of, i, 328; ii, 439 

 Atka mackerel, ii, 439 

 Atlantic creek, i, 308, 309 

 Atlantic oarfish, ii, 472 

 Atlantic salmon, ii, 89 

 attenuate, i, 19 

 Atthey, i, 426 

 Auchenopterus, ii, 508 

 atule, ii, 275 

 auditory ossicles, ii, 160 

 Aulichthys, ii, 233 

 Aulolepis, ii, 48 

 Aulopidae, ii, 130, 132 

 Aulopus, 259; ii, 190 

 Aulorhamphus, ii, 406 

 Aulorhynchidae, 



family of, ii, 232 

 Aulorhynchus, ii, 233 

 Aulostomidae, 



family of, ii, 233 

 Aulostomus, ii, 233 



figure of, ii, 234 

 Australia, ii, 363 

 Australian flying-fish, 



figure of, i, 341 

 Australian lung-fish, i, 100 

 autochthonous, i, 245 

 autostylic skull, i, 561 ; ii, 8 

 Auxis, ii. 262 

 awa, ii, 45, 221 

 awaawa, ii, 43 

 awaous, i, 254; ii, 465 

 aweoweo, ii, 333 

 Axinurus, ii, 409 

 axonasts, i, 604, 605; ii, 17 



Ayres, i, 419, 428 



ayu, i, 256; ii, 115, 117, 118 

 figure of, i, 321; ii, 116 

 fishing for figured, i, 333, 



335 



Azevia, i, 271; ii, 489 

 d'Azyr, i, 390 

 Azygostei, i, 581 

 azygous, i, 88 



Baer, i, 428 



Bagarius, ii, 186 



bagonado, ii, 344 



bagre, ii, 182 



bagre de Rio, ii, 182 



Bagrus, ii, 183 



Baikal cods, ii, 455 



Baird, i, 419; ii, 142 

 on bluefish, ii, 279-282 

 on eel migrations, ii, 142 

 portrait of, i, 407 



Bairdiella, ii, 355 

 figure of, ii, 355 



Bakker, i, 428 



Balanoglossidae, i, 465 



Balanglossus, i, 461 



Balanus, ii, 544 



balaos, ii, 212 



Balfour, i, 428, 511,513; ii, 8 

 finfold theory, i, 69, 514 

 lateral -fold theory, i, 71- 



73 



on paired fins, ii, 8 



on sharks, i, 511 

 Balfour and Parker, 



on Lepidosteus, ii, 5 

 Balistapus, i, 181; ii, 413 

 Balistes, i, 206, 391, 611; 

 ii, 22 



figure of, i, 184; ii, 412 

 Balistidae, ii, 413, 418 



family of, ii, 412 

 Ballou, 



on eels, ii, 417 

 banded rockfish, 



figure of, ii, 432 

 banded sunfish, 



figure of, ii, 299 

 bandfishes, ii, 363 

 bandfishes, 



the crested, ii, 291 

 Banks, i, 395 

 barbels, i, 115; ii, 170 



organs of touch, i, 122 

 barber-fish, ii, 328 

 barbero, ii, 408 

 barbudos, ii, 256 

 Barbulifer, ii, 462 

 Barbus, ii, 170, 175 

 Barkas, i, 426 

 Barneville, i, 412 

 Barracuda, ii, 34, 39, 215, 

 266, 317, 469 



Barracuda, 



family of, ii, 222 



figure of, ii, 223 

 Barramunda, i, 116, 614, 615 



Giinther on, i, 615 

 barreto, ii, 467 

 barriers, 



Alleghanies, i, 311 



artificial dams, i, 300 



Cape of Good Hope, i, 268 



checks to movement, i, 240 



crossing by fishes, i, 302 



to dispersion, i, 297 



Isthmus of Panama, i, 269 



local, i, 298 



mountain chains, i, 310 



Rocky Mountains, i, 305 



the Sierras, i, 310 



silt-bearing streams, i, 301 



species absent from, i, 239 



temperature, i, 298 



water-falls, i, 300 



watersheds, i, 205 

 basal bone, 



of dorsal fin, i, 49 



figure of, i, 49, 56 



of pectoral fin, i, 59 

 baseosts, ii, 17 

 basilar, i, 88 

 Basilevsky, i, 411 

 basking shark, i, 539 



figure of, i, 540 



largest of fishes, i, 539 

 bass, i, 4, 21, 47, 290, 323, 

 440; ii, 316-350 



black, i, 303, 304 



white, i, 321 



yellow, i, 321 

 bassalian fishes, i, 245, 246; 



ii, 128 



Bassani, i, 427 

 Bassozetus, 



figure of, i, 456 

 bastard halibut, ii, 489 

 Bateson, i, 463 

 batfish, ii, 402, 458 



figure of, ii, 553 



shoulder-girdle of, i, 88; 



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Bathyclupeidas, ii, 290 

 Bathygadus, ii, 541 

 Bathylagus, ii, 127 

 Bathymaster, ii, 502 



figure of, ii, 503 

 Bathymasteridae, ii, 502 

 Bathyonidae, ii, 540 

 Bathyonus, ii, 540 

 Bathypteroidae, ii, 130 

 Bathypterois, ii, 131 

 Batoidei, i, 519 



suborder of, i, 549 

 Batrachians, i, 85, 87, 88 

 Batrachoides, i, 394; ii, 526 



