KOSK FISH. 



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TIk' aliuve description miuI tlic .■ippciuled fii^nre nre ] bi^ird, Mltlioiiiili tlic hauliii;^' nl' tlio trawl liad taken se- 



(lerived from CoLLKTr's work on the deep-sea hslies | vera! liours; and it was kept ulive for some time, bnt 



taken by tlto Norwegian Arctic l']\pedition. Only one ! apijeared to be extremely slnggisli in its movements, 



sjiecinicn of tliis species is as yet known. It was takiMi 'llie transparency of the l>ody i'('ndere(l the intei'iial 



on tlie l(Uli-lnl\', 187S, at a de])tli of l.i^cSO t'atiionis, 4(i.') (jrjzans \isilile, so that in the iivinir tish one conld see 



Fig. 14-2. Rlioilichthijs reijina. 0^,-3 fif tlif natural size. Ficui « iloptli of 1,280 fatlioms. on a dayi'V botloni (i?(7of«/ma-clay witli a tem- 

 perature of— 1-4 Celsius), 465 kilom. N. E. of Jan Maycn I.. 19tli .July, 1878. After Coli.ett. 



kilometres nortli east of dan ^la\en Island, abont mid- 

 way between this island, Norwegian Finmark, and Bear 

 Island. The bottom at this depth consisted of Bilocu- 

 lina-vhiy, and the bottom temperatnre \vas — r4° (,'el- 



the spinal colnmn, tlie several divisions of the bi-ain, 

 the labyrinth, the gills, and most of the \iscera. In 

 the stomach were found .still determinable remains of 

 three crustaceans, Bi/fhoraris Icucopis, I'fieudomi/ftis 



The tisli was still alive when it was drawn on ahi/ssi, and a Hyperioid 



suBAMiLY fierasfinj:". 



No ventral fi)is. Body Eel-liki\ iritli po'uttcd tail. 



■'Fishermen say that of this sea-cucund)er (Cazzo I red, ribbon-like fishes wdiieh are called Cipolle," wrote 

 re&\e — Holothuria ti(}iiih}Sii) are generated the oblong, ! Colimxa'' at the beginning of the 17th century. So 



" Gthr, Cat. Brit. Miis., Fish., vol. IV, p. 370. 



' De aqttatilil/ti.i aliisijne iionnullis animalibus, Roiniv lljli). p. XXXVIl. 



