Guide to the exhibition of specimens illustrating the modification of the structure of animals in relation to flight.

  • British Museum (Natural History)
Date:
1913
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Credit: Guide to the exhibition of specimens illustrating the modification of the structure of animals in relation to flight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the pectoral afins divided into two parts, the hinder of which is greatly expanded in the adult, and enables the fish to move through the air like the Flying-fish {Exocoetus), though for shorter Fig. 14.—Flying Gurnard {Dactylojptenis volitans) (see 47). From Gunther’s Studij of Fishes, 1880, p. 481. Fig. 15.—An African Fresh-water Flying-fish {Pantodon bttchholzi) (see 48). From Bouloiiger, Camb. Fat. Hist, vii, p. 659. distances.* The Flying Gurnards inhabit tropical and warm seas ; the best known is Dactylopterus volitans, of the Mediterranean Sea and temperate and tropical parts of the Atlantic Ocean. The largest species are about eighteen inches in length and twenty- four inches in width when fully spread. * See H. N. Moseley, A Naturalist on the “ Challenger,” 1879, p. 571.