THE STRANGE FISH, PTERICHTHYS 



knowledge of the curious bony plates which 

 build up the case or " carapace " of the body 



Fig. 184. — Photograph of a cardboard model of Pterichthys 

 made by Hugh Miller, the celebrated stone-mason and 

 naturalist of Cromarty, preserved in the Natural History 

 Museum. 



of Pterichthys (Fig. 183), and also of its soft 

 scaly tail, and the two extraordinary paddles 



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