THE run; fishes. 





The living-fishes or walking-fishes of the fresh v 

 Asia are somewhat like the mullets, and yet there are differences which 

 make their position very uncertain. Most peculiar about them U 

 power to withstand drought. Their ponds or tanks ma md 



still they will exist in a semi-torpid condition beneath the dried ra 





Fig. 309. -Barracuda {Sphyrasna spet), above; goose-fish or fishing-frog 



Indeed, they are adapted for breathing air. and can be dr 

 too loner submergence beneath the water. They are used 

 in China: it is said that they are carried about in tul - - 



are cut from the living fish according to the desi 

 Thirty-one species are known, the largest of which may gro* - 

 feet long. 



