The Life-Histories of the British Marine Food-Fishes
The book The Life-Histories of the British Marine Food-Fishes was written by author M'intosh, William Carmichael, 1838-1931 Here you can read free online of The Life-Histories of the British Marine Food-Fishes book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Life-Histories of the British Marine Food-Fishes a good or bad book?
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Hist. June 1883, p. 430, Plate xvi. figs. 1 and 2. 218 THE BLENNY FAMILY. If the adults are examined in November, December and January many are characterized by the great distention of the abdomen, due to the enlarged roe or ovary. The opinion of Willughby, therefore, that the species brings forth its young in the depth of winter, seems to be most in accord with the condition on the Scottish shores. In the ovary the embryos, which correspond to the larvag of other forms, lie over each other in ...a compact mass, yet the surrounding fluid in the chamber not only moistens the gill- apparatus, but enables them to glide over each other with ease. Stretching inward, moreover, from the thin wall of the ovary is a coating of long villous processes, which in shape are often clavate, narrow at the base and wide at the tip, many of the latter, indeed, forming somewhat flattened sucker-like surfaces. These are the processes on which the developing eggs were situated, and which, as will by-and-by be mentioned, afterwards perform important functions in regard to the embryos.
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