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On some Young Specimens of Centrolophus pompilus (Art.) from the Coast of Cornwall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Extract

On the 24th June, 1891, a mackerel boat, which had been fishing off the Runnistone, brought in several fish of the above species. They excited a good deal Of interest among the local fishermen, to whom they were quite unknown. A coastguardsman, who had seen them abroad, I forget where, declared them to be “pilot-fish,” a diagnosis with which some of the fishermen, to whom the true pilot-fish, Naucrates ductor, appeared to be known, could by no means agree. It appears, however, that from a certain similarity of habits the name is occasionally applied to the form before us, usually known to British naturalists as the black-fish.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1892

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References

* I am indebted to Prof. G. B. Howes for this reference.

* Couch notes that whilst he was drawing his specimen the side on which it was laid turned to a fine blue.