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swimming crustaceans, etc. The common flounder from 
Nova Scotia to Capo WiXitariX^i^ Pseudo2:)leuronectes Ameri- 
canus. 
Order 6. rediciilati. — The type of tliis order is the goose- 
fish. The name was given to the group from the long 
Fig. 218.— Young Anglers at different ages. After Lutken. 
slender bones suppoirdng the pectoral fins. The gill-open- 
ings are small and placed in the axils of the pectoral fins. 
LopMus piscatoritcs, the goose-fish or angler (Fig. 217) 
has an enormous mouth, and swallow^s fishes nearly as large 
as itself. Its eggs are laid in broad, ribbon-like, thin, 
gelatinous masses, two metres long and half a metre wide, 
