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Another type of devel- opment is illustrated in the sword-fish. The young has a bony head, bristling with spines. As it grows . Older the spines disappear, the skin grows smoother, and, finally, the bones of the upper jaw grow together, forming a prolonged sword, the teeth are lost and the fins become greatly modi- fied. Fig. 50 shows three of these stages of growth. The FIG. 50. Three stages in the development of the sword-fish (Xipfiias gladiu-s). A, very young ; b, older ; c, adult. Partly a...fter LUTKBN. flounder or flat-fish (Fig. 51) when full grown lies flat on one side when swimming or when resting in the sand on the bottom of the sea. The eyes are both on the upper side of the body, and the lower side is blind and colorless. When the flounder is hatched it is a transparent fish, broad and flat, swimming vertically in the water, with an eye on each side. As its development (Fig. 52) goes on it rests itself obliquely on the bottom, the eye of the lower side turns upward, and as growth proceeds it passes gradually 100 ANIMAL LIFE around the forehead, its socket moving with it, until both eyes and sockets are transferred by twisting of the skull to FIG.
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