Identifier: handbookofmarine00kent (find matches)
Title: Handbook of the marine and freshwater fishes of the British Islands : (including an enumeration of every species)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Kent, W. Saville (William Saville), d. 1908 Holdsworth, Edmund Willam Hunt, 1829-1915. Apparatus for fishing Walpole, Spencer, Sir, 1839-1907. British fish trade Bertram, James Glass, 1824-1892. Unappreciated fisher folk, their round of life and labour Fryer, Charles Edward. Salmon fisheries
Subjects: Fisheries Fishes Fish trade
Publisher: London : W. Clowes and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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dultexamples of the Common Tunny, though these may begreatly exceeded. The cast of an example of this species,measuring eight feet, captured at Dawlish, Devonshire, is onview in the Buckland Museum. The remaining membersof the Mackerel family, that like the Common Tunny are OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 33 only irregular wanderers to our shores, are the Long-finnedTunny (Orcynus germd), No. 37; the Bonito (Thynnuspelamys), No. 38; the Short-finned Tunny or Pelamid(Pelamys sardd), No. 39; and the Plain Bonito (Atixisrochei), No. 40. Young examples of the greater number ofthese species will be found among the spirit series inthe Day Collection. A remaining very remarkable fish,referred by most authorities to the Scombridcz, but whichpossesses but few points in common with the typicalMackerels, is that species of sucking-fish known as theCommon Remora (Echeneis remora), No. 41. This fishdiffers from the sucking-fishes belonging to the familyDiscoboli in that the adhesive organ or acetabulum is
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FIG. 8.—SUCKING-FISH (Echeneis remora). developed dorsally, immediately on the crown of the head,instead of upon the ventral surface of the body, being,indeed, a peculiar modification of the anterior dorsal fin.The habits of the Remora are very singular, it not being afree roving fish, but always found in company with largerspecies, such as members of the Shark tribe, to which theyaffix themselves by their dorsal sucker, swimming off momen-tarily to obtain food, and returning again to the shelter oftheir selected hosts. In like manner these fish will alsoattach themselves to vessels, sometimes to the number ofseveral hundreds, finding an abundant supply of foodin the kitchen grease and garbage of an even less savourydescription that is more or less continually thrownoverboard. From the classic days of Ovid and Pliny, to D 34 MARINE AND FRESHWATER FISHES within a comparatively recent date, it was implicitly believedthat a Remora, by fixing itself to the bottom of a vessel,was able to

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