species and Distribution of the Principal 

 Aquatic Animals and Plants. 



Aquatic animals and plants, found in Japanese waters are 

 •extraordinarily rich in varieties so that we can hardly enumerate 

 all the marketable species here m a short space. There are 

 actually as many as fifty kinds of these whose output is large 

 and whose demand is extensive. Samples exhibited in the present 

 exhibition number 44 kinds, as may be seen in the following 

 table :— 



The following 46 commercially important species are exhibited. 



No Japanese Scientific Name, 



or English. 

 ^^ Komb'j ^^ Laminaria ochotensis Miyabe (n.sp. provis.) 



^' Tengusa " Gelidium Amausii Lam. 



" Funori " Gloiopeltis tenax T. Ag. 



'• Nori " Porphyra tenera Kjellm. 



Short razor clam. Solecurtus constrieta Lam. 



Ark-shell Area granosa Lisch Ke. 



Pearl-oyster Margaritifera martensii (D Kr.) 



Pearl-oyster Margaritifera margaritifera (Lam) 



Edible oyster Ostera talien wahnensis (Cross) 



Ear-shell Haliotis gigantea Chem. 



Squid Loligo bleekeri keferstein. 



Penaeus Canaliculatus Olivier. 



Spining Lobster Palinurus japonicus Gray. 



Giant crab Macrocheira kaempferi De. Haan. 



" Rabuka ^' Chalamydoselachus anguinens garman. 



Herring Clupea harengus L. 



Sardine Clupea melanosticta Schlag. 



Anchovy Engraulis ja;:onicus Schleg. 



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