ISBN: 9781130586602

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 26 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 26 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.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. 1872 Excerpt: . . . is slightly the largest. In L. dentatus the procencephalon and the optic lobes are represented as divided into right and left lobes, as in Amblyopsis, and the cerebellum does not extend laterally over the medulla oblongata as in L. subterraneus, but, as in Amblyopsis (PI. 1, fig. Id), is not so broad as the medulla, and, projecting forwards, covers a much larger portion of the optic lobes than is the case in L. subterraneus. The Cuban blind fish has the body, cheeks and opercular bones covered with scales. As in Amblyopsis the eves exist, but are so imbedded in the flesh of the head as to be of no use. The outline cut here given (Fig. 1), copied from Poey, is very characteristic of the form of the fish, but does not. exhibit the fleshy cilia or details of scaling. The first notice that I can find of the Mammoth Cave blind fish is that contained in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 1, page 175, where is recorded the presentation of a specimen to the Academy by W. T. Craige, M. D. , at the Meeting held on May 24, 1842, in the following words: --A white, eyeless crayfish (Astacus Bartoni) and a small white fish, also eyeless (presumed to belong to a subgenus of Silurus), both taken from a small stream called the River Styx in the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, about two and one-half miles from the entrance. Dr. DeKay in his Natural History of New York, Fishes, page 187, published in 1842, describes the fish, from a poor specimen in MaMMOTH CaVE. 3 the Cabinet of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, under the name of Amblyopsis spelceus. -DeKays description is on the whole so characteristic of the fish as to leave no doubt as to the species he had before him, though the statement that i. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<