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Index 



mud-minnows, 



figure of, ii, 193 



tenacity of life in, i, 147 

 mud-skippers, ii, 465 



figure of, ii, 466 

 muffle jaws, ii, 444 

 Mugil, i, 32, 157, 343, 39*; 

 ii, 144, 219 



figure of, i, 330; ii, 221 

 Mugilidae, i, 206; ii, 219 

 muki-muki, i, 183; ii, 420 

 Muller, i, 384, 396, 405, 415, 

 428, 609, 613; ii, 3, 24, 

 39, 40, 144, 533 



on elastic spring, i, 96 



on ganoids, ii, 9 



on gas in swim-bladder, i, 

 96 



on Lepidosteus, ii, 5 



portrait of, i, 399 

 Mullerian duct, i, 28 

 mullets, i, 117, 268, 328; ii, 

 39, 144, 215, 219, 221 



Goode on, ii, 219, 220 

 Mullidae, i, 206; ii, 257, 351- 



379 

 Mullus, i, 261, 393; n, 256 



figure of, i, 322; ii, 352 

 Munster, i, 423 

 munu, i, 322; ii, 352 

 Muraena, i, 211, 391; ii, 152 



figure of, ii, 153 

 Muraenesocidae, ii, 150 

 Muraenesox, i, 211; ii, 150 

 Muraenidae, i, 211; ii, 152, 



'55 



Muraenolepidae, ii, 541 

 Murchison, i, 423 

 murcielago, ii, 458 

 muroaji, ii, 274 

 muscles of the fish, i, 25 

 muskallonge, 



figure of, ii, 192 

 Musquaw whitefish, ii, 65 

 Mustelus, i, 71, 541 

 mutsu, ii, 317 



mutton-fish, i, 324; ii, 518 

 mutton-snapper, ii, 335 



figure of, i, 331 

 Mycteroperca, i, 271; ii, 325, 



327 



figure of, ii, 327 

 Myctophidae, i, 189, 204; 



ii, 132-134, 526 

 Myctophum, i, 195; ii, 133, 



134 



figure of, ii, 133 

 MySobatis, i, 557, 558 

 Mylognathus, i, 565 

 Mylostoma, i, 583, 584, 587, 



5 8 9, 590 



Mylostomidae, i, 587 

 myotomes, i, 71 



Myoxocephalus, ii, 445 

 figure of, i, 219; ii, 446, 



447 



Myriacanthidae, i, 566 

 Myriacanthus, i, 566; ii, 255 

 Myrichthys, 



figure of, ii, 151 

 Myridae, ii, 148, 150 

 Myriolepis, ii, 14 

 Myripristis, i, 162, 268, 271; 



ii, 254-256 

 Myrocongridae ii, 153 

 Myrophis, i, 313 

 Myrus, i, 259, 263; ii, 150 

 Mysis, {,317 

 Mysore, 



walking-fish of, i, 167 

 mythology of fishes, i, 359- 



366 



Myxine, i, 198, 490, 593 

 Myxinidae, i, 489 

 Myxobolus, i, 343 

 Myxocyprinus, ii, 173 

 Myxodagnus, ii, 506 

 Myxodes, ii, 508 

 Myxosporidia, i, 342, 344 

 Myzontes, i, 486 



Nagg's headfish, i, 375, 376 

 Naisia, ii, 32 

 namazu, ii, 188 

 names of bones, i, 39 

 names of fishes, i, 372 

 nami-ho-hana, ii, 218 

 Nandidae, ii, 358 

 Nannocharax, ii, 162 

 Nansenia, ii, 127 

 Narcine, 



figure of, i, 185, 553 

 Narcobatidae, 



family of, i, 553 

 Narcobatis, i, 553 

 Nardo, i, 412 

 Nassau, 



figure of, ii, 324 

 natural selection, 



effect of, i, 318 



in fishes, i, 218 



process of, i, 297 



species changed by, i, 240 

 Naucrates, ii, 272, 278 



figure of, ii, 273 

 Nantichthys, ii, 448 

 Nebris, ii, 355 

 Necturus, i, 157, 600 

 needle-bearing filefish, 



figure of, ii, 414 

 needle-fishes, i, 128 



figure of, ii, 210 

 negro-chub, ii, 167 

 negro-fish, ii, 324 

 Nelson, i, 419 



on Anableps, ii, 196, 197 



Nemachilus, ii, 176 

 Nematognathi, i, 405; ii, 9, 



40, 161, 177, 178 

 Nematistiidae, ii, 278 

 Nematocentrus, ii, 218 

 Nematodes, i, 344 



Linton on, i, 352 

 Nematonurus, ii, 541 

 Nemichthyidae, ii, 151 

 Nemichthys, i, 211; ii, 151 



figure of, i, 17, 365; ii, 152 



jaws figured, i, 156 

 Nemipterus, ii, 340 

 Nemopteryx, ii, 539 

 Neoceratodus, i, 79, 80, 100, 

 1 1 6, 204, 450, 613 



eggs of, i, 618 



figure of, i, 614 



lower jaw of, figured, i, 616 



shoulder girdle in, i, 68, 

 609 



skull of, i, 67 



Neochanna, i, 252; ii, 206 

 Neoclinus, ii, 462 



figure of, ii, 507 

 Neoditrema, ii, 375 

 Neoliparis, ii, 455 



figure of, ii, 455 

 Neopercis, ii, 502 

 Neosebastes, ii, 433 

 nerka, ii, 73 



nerve cells and fibres, i, 152 

 nerves of fishes, i, 113, 114 

 nervous system, i, 109-114 

 nest-building, ii, 229 



of sticklebacks, ii, 230, 231 

 nest of fish, i, 14, 172 

 Nettastoma, i, 211, 259; ii, 



151 



Nettastomidae, ii, 148, 151 

 neurentric canal, i, 138 

 Newberry, i, 426, 428, 584, 



589 

 New England, 



scanty fauna of, i, 302 

 Newton, i, 426 

 New Zealand, 



fauna of, i, 252 

 nezupo, ii, 441 

 nictitating membrane, i, 540 

 nijinge-rijinge, i, 171, 172 

 Nieuhof, i, 396 

 Nilsson, i, 410 

 Niphon, ii, 320 

 nohu, ii, 434 



noises of fishes, i, 168, 169 

 Nomeidae, ii, 283 

 nomenclature, i, 173 



beginning of, i, 374 



trinomial, i, 378 



of trunkfishes, i, 373 

 Nordmann, i, 410 

 northern blennies, ii, 511 



