Title: The aquarium : its inhabitants, structure, and management
Identifier: aquariumitsinhab00tayl (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Taylor, J. E. (John Ellor), 1837-1895
Subjects: Aquariums; Freshwater animals
Publisher: Edinburgh : John Grant
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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202 FISHES FOR MARINE AQUARIA. a severe wound, both on fish and man, whence its name among the west-country people of " sea-adder." It is the two rows of elongated hard plates under- neath the bodies of sticklebacks which have given them the name of Gasterostens, i. e. " bony-belly." The fifteen-spined species is a shore-loving fish, and should therefore be kept in a shallow or tidal tank. The " pogge," or armed bull-head (Aspidophorus Euro- pans) is not distinctly related to it, but its body is Fig. 134.
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Armed Bull-head, or Pogge (Aspidophorus Europceus), more octagonal, being covered with eight rows of strong plates. The mouth is furnished with curious cilia. This fish is a very graceful species, but terribly destructive to the young shrimps, prawns, and lobsters. In pursuit of the latter species they frequent the deeper parts of the sea, and in the aquarium may be seen keeping close to the floor, whose tint so well comports with that of their bodies that it screens them from observation. Indeed, to a certain extent the pogge

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