Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
NEW FISHES
FOR FISHERM EN-.
Species Recently Discovered By
United States Fish Commission,
Fish With Two KeeIs-one Fellow Bites
sardines and sleeps Standing On His
Head-Hldden in Sea for Years.
Fishermen take note.

Fishermen take note.
There are stranger FISH in the sea than
ever have been caught before.
The United States fish commission re-
ports the finding of several new varte-
ties Of them absolutely unknown to fish
ermen.
This happens at precisely the right
season, for it is now that the amateur
fisherman get out MS, rod and reel
and puts them in fishing order.
A VIRGINIA FISH. ~
That ancient and secretive fellow, the
sea, gives up his mysteries reluctantly.
In waters most familiar. where many
generations have stirred and scraped
and explored the depths with nets and
dredges, there still hide strange forms
So in commonplace home waters, in
the Rappannock river, in Virginia, the
United States fish commission recently
discovered a new species, the grotesque
| little fellow of the name 'lyosphoera
globosa-"
Two specimens Of this odd fish were
taken, both in that part Of the river
near Windmill creek. They were about
one and one-quarter inches long and one
inch wide and deep. Their color was
yellowish white, broken into hexagonRl
spots by a network Of dark brown. The
| entire body was covered with minute
hairlil1e appendages.
This was not the only new and strange
fish that has been discovered recently.
| The same government experts who re-
| ported this new form announce that IN
vestigations in Louisiana, Florida ana
other localities have resulted in the cap
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| science, besides several known forms
which have not been taken in United
| States waters before.
LITTLE FELLOW WITH TWO KEELS
The queerest of them all was found
near Crawfish Bar, Key West, Fla, by
Barton w. Bvermann and William c.
Kendall They named him corythro~
ichthys cayorunn, and the kindest thing
that can be said is that he deserved it.
Cory, etc, is full of hard, bony ridges
except where he has rings of aImor.
He has two keels. For the comfort OF
residents of Key West it must be ex-
planned that he is only three and a
quarter inches long. ,.s
L0phogobiuS cyprinoides, a fish with
a look of melancholy surprise on his
face, was discovered in the mouth OF
Little river, near Miami, Fla.
He is one of the most remarkable OF
those remarkable fish, the gobles This
particular species Is West Indian, and
never before has been known to exist
north of Cuba. Coolies are queer fish
| in other things besides looks. Some like
to sleep standing" on their heads5
others love to squeeze in between two
rocks; one species esteemS 1t the great
: est pleasure in life to edge and burrow
e under a rock and lie on one side under
; it to dream. sa
E A BRAND NEW VARIETY.
A beautiful big fish was caught by a
: Key West fisherman in about 80 feet Of
s water with a hook baited with sar-
= dine. Only one man who saw it could
/ recall ever having seen another like it.
n He was not sure about it, either, but
= thought that he once had seen similar
;, fish in the Canary Islands, where it was
known as "cabosa.'
8 Its general color was brown, with
3 large, irregular, white spots. The belly
r was brassy brown, the fins blotched
S with white. olive and black and bor-
dered with green and orange. In gen.
eral shape it was like a perch or sea
: bass. 1t was named dermatolopis
}, zancluS.
d Dr. Tarleton H. Bean and Mr.. Ever
: mann obtained fish new to United
Estates waters off Fort Pierce, Fla He
was pompon, hitherto known only as a
Surinam fish. In general shape it was
q much like SOUP but it's lips are much
q thicker, its color is different and its size
i is greater.
For the comfort of northern fisher
e men. it may be stated that these fish
2 travel north, going wherever the water
s is warm Traces of them were found Oft
: Massachusetts,, and Griffin one Of the
e pilots of the Delaware. exhibits the
q dried portions of the Key West fish,
: which he says he caught down the bay.
: lighthouse keeper of the upper
California coast threw back into the sea
specimens of the lophogobius, after
h taking photographs of them, but it was
a only during the sitting Of the recent
e fish commission in Florida that official
: note was taken of the same.
! So fishermen, cheer upl
i / Strange fish are waiting for you in the
seat +'