INDEX 



691 



euphausiids, 202 



carotenoids, 487 



feeding, 228 

 Euplectella, 630 

 E. speciosa, 632 

 Euplotes, 366, 416 

 Euprymna, 558 

 E. morsei, 621 

 eurythermal animals, 5 

 Eustomias, 242, 577 

 Euthynnus, 353 

 Evasterias, 589 

 Evermanella, 320 

 excretion, 280 

 excretory organs, 281, 295 

 Exocoetus, 341 

 exopeptidases, 266 

 exoskeletons, 629, 635 

 extinction coefficient, 19 

 extracellular digestion, 262 

 extracellular luminescence, 541 

 eyes, 21, 307 



electrical responses, 331 



electroretinogram, 331 

 eye-pigments, 309, 314 

 eye-spots, 308 

 eyestalks of Crustacea, 156, 315, 515, 644 



Face Una, 664 

 facilitation, 385, 424, 570 

 faeces, elimination of, 275 

 Favia. 619 

 feeding, 202 



feeding mechanisms, 203 

 fibrin, 125 

 fibrinogen, 125, 127 

 Fick's law, 136 

 fiddler crab. See Uca 

 Fierasfer. See Carapus 

 Filograna, 654, 655 

 filter-feeding, 203. 207 

 filtering-rates, 229 

 fin whale. See Balaenoptera 

 fish- 

 behaviour, 461 



bile pigments, 480 



brain, 462 



carotenoids, 475 



carotiproteins, 480 



chemo-reception, 352 



chromatophores, 506, 507, 510 



circulation, 90, 102 



coloration, 475, 482, 484, 494 



colour changes, 488, 507, 518 



colour vision, 328 



commensalism, 587 



digestion, 256, 263, 265, 270, 274 



endocrine glands, 519, 526 



excretion, 289, 299 



eyes, 312, 317, 326 



feeding, 230, 236, 241 



haemoglobin, 182, 186 



hearing, 341 



fish (contd.) — 



heart, 108, 121 



iris-movement, 317 



learning, 461 



lens, 330 



luminescence, 536, 546, 554, 559, 573 



nuptial coloration, 494, 527 



olfaction, 252 



poisonous species, 665 



proprioceptors, 337 



respiration, 141, 167 



retinal photomechanical changes, 317 



skeleton, 634 



sound-production, 406 



tactile sensitivity, 336 



taste, 352 



thermal sensitivity, 355 



venomous, 665 



ventilation, 167 



visual pigments, 329 



See also cyclostomes, elasmobranchs, 

 hagfish, lampreys, selachians and 

 teleosts 

 fish-lice, 605 

 Flabelligera, 656 

 flagella, 365 

 flagellates, 202, 204 

 flame-cell, 296 

 flat fish, 405 



See also Pleuronectes, Pseudopleuro- 

 neetes, Scophthalmus, So lea 

 flotation, 400 

 fluid endoskeletons, 377 

 flukes, 593 



Flustra, 615, 652, 653 

 Fins t re I la, 209 

 Folliculina, 205 

 food chain, 203 

 Foraminifera, feeding, 204 

 Fratercula, 245 



See also puffin 

 F. artica, 170, 186 

 Fregata, 246 



frigate-birds feeding, 246 

 fulmar, feeding, 246 

 Fulmarus glacialis, 246 

 Fundulus, 24, 109, 156, 256, 270, 320, 329, 



344, 506, 507, 525, 526, 527, 678 

 F. heteroclitus, 157, 163, 342, 403, 488, 



492, 508, 522, 523, 525 

 F. majalis, 488 



F. parvipinnis, 153, 159, 476, 486, 488 

 fungal symbionts, 620 



Gadus, 506 



G. callarias, 31, 101, 186, 287, 353, 406 

 G. merlangus, 357, 587 



G. pollachius, 329, 406, 521 



Galathea, 228 



Galeus, 318 



gall-crabs, 228 



galls on sea weeds, 583 



Gambusia patruelis, 530 



