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with heavy armor and has enormous pectoral fins that give it a 

 moth-like aspect. 



The Flying-fishes and Their 

 Allies (Percesoces) . While flying- 

 fish types are found in several 

 other sub-orders of fishes, those 

 of this group are perhaps the most 

 highly specialized. One of the 

 best types is Exonautes (Fig. 84), 

 which, when it leaps out of the 

 water, parachutes for some distance 

 by means of its very large pec- 

 toral fins. 



The sub-order is not believed 

 to be homogeneous, for it con- 

 tains such aberrant forms as Be- 

 lone, a form resembling superficially 

 the Gar-Pike, and sometimes given 

 that name. 



The Cod and Their Kin (Ana- 

 canihini). Apart from the Cod- 

 fishes the members of this group 



are rather unfamiliar and of no r- QQ m, // ^/ 



FiG.SS.Phyllopteryxeques^Anat- 



especial interest for us. The Cod ura l size. (After Boulenger.) 



(Fig. 85), however, is one of the 



most important of the world's food fishes. It is one of the most 



FIG. 84. Flying fish, Exonautes gilberti. (After Jordan and Evermann.) 



