SWIMMING ANÏMALS
.
'
gÿ
Maorurus or rat—tail, who speds the greater part of its life
_
in the cold dark depths0Ve'r‘the abyssal plain (Plate 33).
These remarks on the
,
distributiOn of shes Will
to
explain also “the distribution 50f
sheries.
Ce‘rtain sh, such as‘
'
scomber) , which prefer
will be found around
the north coast of
the
This,
'
at rst;
rather
_
explanationi is simple”
lies* the
,
:
course of the Gulf Stream;
warm waters Of
this
'maôkêr‘el
'”
—
It is evident that all“th6 shes {that ve most0f the time
,
on the bottomwillbelimit‘édhy
barriere to Coastal
,
waters
or
the—regions of acomparatiŸelÿ Ïsha0wî banks.
There are howeve'r mail
people that
.be: :ter1ÿèd.
TheSe ' shès toam
/
about all through the water layers _' out
open oceas.
»
mostly very}
largest being a few inches
.
are
hizarrè
34) in
appearance and pOss<äs”s
organsa for the
emission of
’
'
,
‘
The distribution
sheS is also of
_
'
great
are apparently
theirgeographical distribùtîäb‘ÿ" those unseen‘
temperatureïbarriers.‘;» TAt—‘the same time just as” the bottom—=
shes appear to 'be‘“restricted to‘ïa‘reas within Certain depths,
soin theopen water'softhtäaooean these shesÿäre to be found”
_
each, speeiès: inside a
of depth
oor.
instance; thoSe
,
.
that
-b'etwèeathësuaee" and one hundred
_
fath oms ; ;:others; 3—ÏagainÎ; WillaheVer ,— bei met with in these
'
water layers,
below perhaps two hundred
.
fathoms ; - ahdrä Ηÿet'
Only be '
captured at ’
“very—
?
,
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