GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF FISHES
A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF FISHES
BY
DAVID STARR JORDAN
President of Leland Stanford Junior University
With Colored Frontispieces and 507 Illustrations
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL II.
"I am the wiser in respect to all knowledge and the better qualified for all fortunes for knowing that there is a minnow in that brook."—Thoreau
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1905
Copyright, 1905
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published March, 1905
CONTENTS VOL. II.
CHAPTER I.
THE GANOIDS.
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Subclass Actinopteri.—The Series Ganoidei.—Are the Ganoids a 1 Natural Group?—Systematic Position of Lepidosteus.—Gill on the Ganoids as a Natural Group.
CHAPTER II.
THE GANOIDS (Continued).
Classification of Ganoids.—Order Lysopteri.—The Palæoniscidæ.—The 13 Platysomidæ.—The Dorypteridæ.—The Dictyopygidæ.—Order Chondrostei.—Order Selachostomi: the Paddle-fishes.—Order Pycnodonti.—Order Lepidostei.—Family Lepisosteidæ.—Embryology of the Garpike.—Fossil Garpikes.—Order Halecomorphi.—Pachycormidæ.— The Bowfins: Amiidæ.—The Oligopleuridæ.
CHAPTER III.
ISOSPONDYLI.
The Subclass Teleostei, or Bony Fishes.—Order Isospondyli.—The 37 Classification of the Bony Fishes.—Relationships of Isospondyli.—The Clupeoidea.—The Leptolepidæ.—The Elopidæ.—The Albulidæ.—The Chanidæ.—The Hiodontidæ.—The Pterothrissidæ.—The Ctenothrissidæ.—The Notopteridæ.—The Clupeidæ.—The Dorosomatidæ.—The Engraulididæ.—Gonorhynchidæ.—The Osteoglossidæ.—The Pantodontidæ.
CHAPTER IV.
SALMONIDÆ.
The Salmon Family.—Coregonus, the Whitefish.—Argyrosomus, the Lake 61 Herring.—Brachymystax and Stenodus, the Inconnus.—Oncorhynchus, the Quinnat Salmon.—The Parent-stream Theory.—The Jadgeska Hatchery.—Salmon-packing.