Batrachoides, 
shoulder-girdle of, i, 59 
Batrachoidide, i, 182, 192; 
U, 525, 529, 542 
Batrachoids, ii, 529 
Batrictius, i, 394 
Bdellostoma, i, 490 
Beagle, the, i, 408 
Bean, i, 408, 419 
Beardslee, ii, 101 
Beardslee trout, ii, 101 
Belemnobatis, i, 551 
Bellotti, i, 412 
bellows fish, ii, 545 
Belon, 
on fishes of Mediterranean, 
i, 388 
Belone, ii, 210, 211 
Belonide, 
family of, ii, 210 
Belonorhynchide, ii, 514 
Belonorhynchus, ii, 17 
Belostomus, ii, 29 
Bembradide, ii, 441, 499 
Bembras, ii, 441 
Benecke, 
on spawning of eels, ii, 146 
Beneden, i, 427 
benimasu, ii, 72 
Bennett, i, 408, 416 
Bentenia, ii, 286 
Benthosaurida, ii, 130 
Benthosaurus, li, 131 
Berg, i, 415 
portrait of, i, 409 
Berndt, 
opah taken by, ii, 244 
photograph by, i, 323 
Berycida, i, 206; ii, 294, 499 
family of, ii, 251 
aie ii, 40, 245, 290, 
484, 485 
suborder of, ii, 250-257 
Berycoid fishes, li, 250 
figure of, i, 439; li, 253 
Starks on, ii, 250 
Berycoids, ii, 247 
Berycopsis, ii, 285 
Beryx, i, 259, 263, 438; ii, 
249, 289 
figure of, ii, 251 
beshow, ii, 438 
Betta, i, 163; ii, 370 
biajaiba, ii, 336 
Bianconi, i, 412 
Bibron, i, 412 
big-eye, i, 333 
figure of, ii, 332 
big-eyed scad, li, 275 
Birkenia, i, 580 
figure of, 1, 579 
Birkeniide, i, 579 
bishop-fish, i, 361 
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Index 
bishop-fish, 
figure of, i, 361 
Bjérnson, 
on fishing villages of Nor- 
way, 1, 329 
black angel, ii, 405 
black angel-fish, 
figure of, ii, 403 
black bass, i, 209; 
301, 328 
Hallock on, ii, 302 
Henshall on, ii, 302 
large-mouthed, ii, 304 
small-mouthed, ii, 303 
black bream, ii, 206 
Black Current of Japan, 
sharks in, i, 536 
black escolar, 338 
blackfin snapper, ii, 336 
blackfish, ii, 387 
black grouper, ii, 323, 325 
black-horse, ii, 173 
Blackiston’s line, 
relation to fishes, i, 257 
black-jack, ii, 276 
black nohu, 
figure of, i, 180; ii, 436 
stinging spines of, i, 180 
black-nosed dace, 
figure of, i, 342; ii, 164 
parasites on, i, 342 
black rockfish, ii, 429 
black ruff, ii, 284 
black sea-bass, li, 329 
black-sided darter, 
figure of, ii, 311 
blacksmith, ii, 381 
black-spotted sailor’s choice, 
ii, 168, 
ii, 341 
black-spotted trout, ii, 95 
black swallower, 
figure of, i, 29; ii, 360 
black tai, ii, 344 
black will, ii, 328 
black wrasse, ii, 387 
Blainville, i, 400 
on Paleoniscum, ii, 14 
Blake, i, 60, 408 
Blanchard, i, 412 
blanquillos, ii, 361, 362 
blastoderm, i, 135 
blastomeres, i, 135 
blastopore, i, 138 
blastula, i, 131, 132 
bleak, ii, 163, 167 
Bleeker, i, 379, 412, 414 
Bleekeria, ii, 521 
Bleekeriide, ii, 522 
Blenniide, i, 208, 276, 
ii, 506-531 
Blennioidea, ii, 470 
Blennius, i, 208, 391; ii, 511, 
513 
290; 
559 
Blennius, 
figure of, i, 508 
blenny, i, 209, 230, 290, 4293 
UM, 507-531 
figure of, ii, 509, 511 
- Japanese, i, 9; ii, 513 
kelp, ii, 507 
northern, ii, 511 
sarcastic, ii, 507 
snake, ii, 512 
Blepsias, 
figure of, ii, 448 
blind Brotula, 
figure of, i, 222 
blind catfish, ii, 181 
blind cavefish, 
figure of, i, 116; ii, 202 
blindfish, i, 290; ii, 202, 524 
descent of, ii, 202 
Eigenmann on, i, 117; ii, 
202 
habits of, ii, 202 
theories regarding origin, 
ii, 202 
blindfish of Mammoth Cave, 
ii, 202, 203 
Eigenmann on, i, 221, 222 
figure of, i, 221 
blind goby, ii, 467 
blob, il, 444 
Bloch, i, 389, 397 
Blochiida, li, 514 
Blochius, 
figure of, ii, 514 
Blossom, the, i, 408 
blueback, ii, 71, 73-76 
blue-back salmon, ii, 68, 69 
blue-breasted darter, i, 2 315 
li, 314 
figure of, i, 231 
blue cod, ii, 440 
bluefin, ii, 66 
bluefin cisco, 
figure of, ii, 66 
bluefish, ii, 278, 354 
Baird on, i, 279-282 
destructiveness of ii, 281 
figure of, i, 324; li, 279 
food of, ii, 280 
blue-gill, 
figure of, ii, 300 
blue-green sunfish, i, 26 
figure of, i, 27; ii, 350 
blue parrot-fish, ii, 396 
figure of, ii, 394 
figure of jaws, ii, 393 
blue sharks, i, 534, 542 
blue smelt, 
figure of, ii, 218 
blue-spotted guativere, li, 324 
blue surf-fish, ii, 375 
blue tang, ii, 408 
figure of, ii, 407 
