CHAPTER XI 



SPOTTED EELS, CRAB EATERS, SURF WHITING, MOON FISH, 

 LEATHER JACKETS, TRIGGER FISH, AND MULLET 



SPOTTED EEL (Mystriophys intertinctus) 



THERE is something peculiarly snakelike about these yellow, 

 black-spotted eels, which are only found washed ashore after 

 storms from a certain quarter, and never, at any rate to my 

 knowledge, take a baited hook. There are many of these 

 spotted eels in the waters round Florida Keys, and one of them 

 is known as the " sea-serpent." 



The small upper fish in the photograph is evidently a wrass 

 of some kind, probably a rock-cook (Centrolabrus), but as no 

 one catches the wrass, save by accident, I never studied 

 them. 



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