ITS LONG SLEEP
INDIAN FISH'S HABITS
BURROWS IN MUD
CALCUTTA, April 25. What is claimed to be a scientific discovery of world interest has been made by Dr. S. L; Hora, of the Zoological Survey of India. He has found a marine fish which during the summer buries itself in mud to a depth/of six feet, and passes the season in sleep. > The fish is an elongated goby of the genus pseudoapocryptes, which lives in creeks. When the creeks dry up it burrows and remains in a comatose state, breathing through an air-hole at the top of its burrow. The discovery was made at TJtterbagh, near Calcutta. When ejdiumed, the fish was languid, but when placed in water it resumed respiration by flapping its gill-covers. The significance of tho discovery is declared to lie in the fact that, whereas all previous examples of hibernating fish have been of the fresh-water type, this is the first instance of a salt-water variety being found.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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162ITS LONG SLEEP Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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