Fig. 8.—Aphyonus gelatinosus, 1,400 fathoms, between Australia and New Guinea.
Fig. 9.—Aphyonus mollis, 955 fathoms, 24° 36′ north, 84° 5′ west.
Fig. 10.—Tauredophidium hextii, 1,310 fathoms, Bay of Bengal.
Fig. 11.—Acanthonus armatus, 1,050 fathoms, mid Pacific, off the Philippines.
Fig. 12.—Typhlonus nasus, 2,150 to 2,440 fathoms, north of Australia and north of Celebes.
Fig. 13.—Hephthacara simum, 902 fathoms, Coromandel coast.
Fig. 14.—Alexeterion parfaiti, 5,005 metres, North Atlantic.
The observations of Cope are entirely erroneous, as we shall see, and the speculations based on them naturally fall to the ground.
Dr. Sloan recorded one Amblyopsis which he kept twenty months without food. “Some of them would strike eagerly at any small body thrown in the water near them, rarely missed it, and in a very short time ejected it from their mouths with considerable force. I tried to feed them often with bits of meat and fish-worms, but they retained nothing. On one occasion I missed a small one, and found his tail projecting from the mouth of a larger one.”
Wyman found a small-eyed fish in the stomach of an Amblyopsis.