Identifier: fishes00jord (find matches)
Title: Fishes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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face of the water, and may be mistaken for a log or snag. Itis impossible to take it in any other way than with the seineor a very strong hook; the prongs of the gig cannot pierce thescales, which are as hard as flint, and even proof against leadballs! Its flesh is not good to eat. It is a voracious fish. Itsvulgar names are diamond-fish (owing to its scales being cutlike diamonds), devil-fish, jackfish, garjack, etc. The snoutis large, convex above, very obtuse, the eyes small and black;nostrils small, roimd before the eyes; mouth beneath the eyes. 154 The Mythology of Fishes transversal with large angular teeth. Pectoral and abdominaifins trapezoidal. Dorsal and anal fins equal, longitudinal, withmany rays. Thj whole body covered with large stone scales,lying in oblique rows; they are conical, pentagonal penta;dral,with equal sides, from half an inch to one inch in diameter,brown at first but becoming the color of turtle-shell when dry.They strike fire with steel and are ball-proof!
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