10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOOLFISH»
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Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries
Do- Slightly Somewhat lighter. Not spotted . (?) (?) (?) (?) eral sp.). darker. Dark
do Yellow. Brownish . . . (?) (?) do do Distinctly Dark blue(?) pike). Dark Light ...do
yellow. Yellow.. . Brownish . . . (?) Not tested . . green. canthus (foolfish) sp.? do ...
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Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission
The Pile-Fishes. 157. Monacanthus hispidus (Liunwus). Foolfish; Filzfish. (“ i §)
Present every year; some years rather scarce, some years abundant. In 1897 it
was extremely numerous in July and August, and several hundred were often
taken ...
3
A List of the Fishes of Rhode Island
The Fileflshes. 131. Monacanthus hispidus (Linnaeus). Foolfish; Filefish. Geog.
Dist. : Cape Cod to Cuba, through the West Indies to Brazil. Season in R. I. : A few
specimens taken in Rhode Island waters, the maximum size being 5 or 6 inches.
Henry Carroll Tracy,
1906
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Zoological Society Bulletin
THE ORANGE FILE FISH ONE of the most unique fishes of our fauna is the
Orange Filcfish (Alutera schoepfi), known also by a variety of local names, such
as foolfish, leather-jacket, hambag—fish, old maid, living skeleton and sunfish.
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Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries Made ...
... Flying robin, 148 Foolfish, 139 Four-spined stickleback, 91 Four-spotted
flounder, 162 Frigate mackerel, 102 Frog-fishes, 168 Frost fish, 153. 155
Fundulus diaphanus, 87 Fundulus heteroclitus, 86 Fundulus heteroclitus macro-
lepidotus, ...
Rhode Island. Commissioners of Inland Fisheries,
1910
MONACANTHID^E. The Flleflshes. 147. Monacanthus hispidus (Linnaeus).
Foolfish; File fish. GEOG. DIST. : Lynn, Massachusetts, to Cuba, through the West
Indies to Brazil. In Massachusetts this species is recorded from several places
along ...
Rhode Island. Commissioners of Inland Fisheries,
1910
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Contributions from the Biological Laboratory
Foolfish; Filejish. Geog. Dist.: Maine, to Florida and Texas. Recorded from
Portland, Maine (Storer) ; from several localities on the Massachusetts shore (
Kendall, 1908) ; and in Connecticut, from Long Island Sound, Stratford, and
Stonington ...
Brown University. Biological Laboratory,
1911
THE ORANGE FILEFISH ONE of the most unique fishes of our fauna is the
Orange Filefish (Alutera schoepfi), known also by a variety of local names, such
as foolfish, leather- jacket, hambag-fish, old maid, living skeleton and sunfish.
New York Zoological Society,
1911
9
The Fishes Found in the Vicinity of Woods Hole
The Woods Hole example is 1} inches long, and was obtained July 24, 1897,
under a small piece of floating gulf-weed in Vineyard Sound off Great Harbor.
MONA.CANTHID.ffi. The File-Fishes. 157. Monacanthus hispidus (Linmcus).
Foolfish ...
Hugh McCormick Smith,
1898
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English Spellings and Spelling Rules
12111.; font-inful-us n., -u1-us-es. food n., foods. fool n., fools; fool 1)., foolfeat,
fools, foolieilst, fooling, fooled, fth ,- £0014 ish 0., foolfish-er, foolfish-est; fool! ish-
neaa 14.; foolfer-y n., -er-iea. foot #1., feet; foot 11., foot5eaf, fonts, footiedst,
foofihg ...
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