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also submerged banks with some depth of water above, and 

 that, by the action of the water, spawn deposited on these 

 latter localities is very liable to be dispersed over wide areas 

 of the ocean. Embryoes of at least some shore-fishes hatched 

 under abnormal conditions seem to have an abnormal growth 

 up to a certain period of their life, when they perish. The 

 Leptocephali must be regarded as such abnormally developed 

 fish (see p. 179). Fishes of a similar condition are the so- 

 called Pelagic Plagusicc, young Pleuronectoids, the origin of 

 which is still unknown. As mentioned before, Flat-fishes, 

 like all the other Anacanths, are otherwise not represented in 

 the PelaG^ic fauna. 



F\gs. 109 and 110. — Antennari^is candi7naculatics, a pelagic fish,] 

 from the Indian Ocean. 



