This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...naked, smooth head. 199. Cottus polyacanthocephalus Pallas.--Sculpin; Bull-head. Puget Sound and northward; generally abundant; not seen southward. Carnivorous. It reaches a length of 15 inches or more, and although of considerable size is not often used as food. There is much waste in a sculpiu, the removal of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...naked, smooth head. 199. Cottus polyacanthocephalus Pallas.--Sculpin; Bull-head. Puget Sound and northward; generally abundant; not seen southward. Carnivorous. It reaches a length of 15 inches or more, and although of considerable size is not often used as food. There is much waste in a sculpiu, the removal of the head aud skin reaving very little meat, and that little comparatively is coarse and dry. 200. Ascelichthys rbodorus J. & G. At Waada Island and other points at the entrance of the Straits of Fnca; exceedingly abundant among the rocks at low tide. Specimens in Mr. Lockington's collection from Gualala, Mendocino County, California. Carnivorous, reaching a length of 3 inches. 201. Psychrolutes paradoxus Gthr. Puget Sound aud northward; a specimen from the Aleutian Islands w in the Museum of the Alaska Commercial Company. It reaches a length of 2 inches. Family AGONIDJE. 202. Botkragouus swani (Steind.) Gill. Not seen by us; the original specimen from Port Townsend. 203. Podotbecus trispinosus (Lockington) J. & G. San Francisco to Santa Barbara; occasionally brought in among prawns ro i he markets of San Francisco; one specimen dredged at Santa Barbara. It reaches a length of 3 inches. 204. Podothecus vulsus J. & G. About San Francisco in the open sea. Brought into market oceasio ally with prawns, and.sometimes taken in sweep-nets by the paranzeU whiea are large fishing-boats, sailing in pairs before the wind, drawn a large net behind ami between them on the bottom. It reaches a leng of 4A iuches. 205. Podothecus acipenserinus (Pallas) Gtbr. Paget Sound and northward; abundant; taken frequently in sein in water of moderate depth. It reaches a length of about a foot, 206. Brachyopsis xyostemus J. & G. Ray of Monterey; abundant in...
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Very Good with no dust jacket. Green cloth, slight edge wear, former library markings inside (stamps, no pockets). Articles by Ralph Arnold on Mollusks, Nathan Banks on Mites, Paul Bartsch on Mollusks & Pond Snails, Austin Clark on Crinoids, more. Additional information available by request.; Volume 32; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 767 pages.
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