INDEX 



451 



Manta, see Devil-fish, Sea Devil 



Marine Biological Association, 405 



Marine fishes, 253 f. 



Marking, of Plaice, 404 



Marsipobranch, gills, 37 ; fossil forms, 

 344 f. ; classification, 344, 373 



Marsupium, 314 



Mastacembelidae, see Spiny Eel 



Masu, 286 



Maxillary, 108 



Meagre, otolith, 191; sounds, 158 



Meal, 400 



Meckel's cartilage, 106, 108 



Median fins, 55 



Medicinal uses offish, 427 



Mediterranean fishes, 257 f. 



Medulla oblongata, 179 



Medullary canal, 177 



Megalodoras, see South American Cat- 

 fish 



Megalops, see Tarpon 



Alelamphaes beanii, 201 



Melanocetus johnsoni, 72 



Membrane bones, see dermal bones 



Memory, 205 



Menhaden, 132 



Mental appendage, 115 



Merluccius, see Hake 



Mermaid, 428; mermaid's pin-box, 

 320 



Mesozoic era, 342 



Metamorphosis, of Eel, 337 f. ; of 

 Plaice, 338 f. 



Microcyprini, 378 



Microphisy see Pipe-fish 



Micropogon, see Sciaenid 



Micropyle, 317 f. 



Mid-brain, 177 



Midshipman, 152 



Migrations, 262 f., 265 



Milk-fish, 377 



Miller's Thumb, 268 



Milling, 204 



Millions, 421 



Milt, 173, 279; see also testis 



Mimicry, 215 f., 224 



Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 384, 406 



Minnow, rate of breathing, 43 ; colour 

 variation, 219 



Minous, see Scorpion-fish 



Miraculous draught, 431 



Mirror Carp, 93, 368, 420 



Mistichthys luzonensis, 425, 426 



Mixopterygia, 294 



Mobula, sec Sea Devil, Smaller Devil- 

 fish 



Mobulidae, 376 



Mochocidae, 273 



Mola, see Sun-fish 



Mollienisia, 301 



Molva, see Ling 



Monacanthidae, see File-fish 



Monacanthus, see File-fish 



Monk-fish, numVjer of young, 325; 

 antiquity, 352 f . ; mythical, 428 



Monocentris, see Pine-cone Fish 



Monocirrhiis, mimicry, 216 f. 



Monstrosities, 419 f. 



Moon-eye, 278 



Moorish Idol, 64 



Moray, see Muraena 



Mormyrid, electric organs, 147; size 

 of brain, 180; air-bladder and 

 auditory organ, 193 ; external gills, 



332 

 Mormyroidea, 377 

 Morone, see Bass 

 Mosquito-eating fishes, 421 f. 

 Motella, see Rockling 

 Motor nerves, 181 

 Mouth, 103 f. 108; of hill-stream 



fishes, 237 f. ; of Ammocoetes, 331; 



of fossil Marsipobranchs, 345 

 Mouth-breeding, 310 

 Movable teeth, 128 

 Mucous, 12, 84 

 Mucous canal system, see lateral 



line 

 Mucous cartilage, 347 

 Mud-fish, 271; aestivation, 244; 



parental care, 305; systematic 



position, 377; see also African 



Lung-fish, Lung-fish 

 Mud Minnow, burrowing, 32 ; effects 



of cold, 241 

 Mud-skipper, 76; respiration, 45; 



walking, jumping, 79; eyes, 189 

 Miigil, see Grey Mullet 

 Mugiloidea, 379 

 Muki-Muki, 144 



Mullidae, 378; sec also Red Mullet 

 Muraena, 213; fins, 65 

 Muscles, 20; of gill-arches, 36; 



structure, 167; of oceanic fishes, 



230 



