FISH FROM THE DEEP.
FLAT AND BRILLIANT HUED. A WELLINGTON FIND. WELLINGTON, December 8. A strange fish was round on the beach at Paraparaumu, and was brought to the Dominion Museum. It proves to be of the genus Traelnptcrus and of the species Traehyptcius. It is -rn extraordinary looking fish, measuring Ift 6ins in length, and foul or five inches in width. It averages onlv an eighth of an inch in thickness, and at the tail it is much thinnerriba tha t. It is richly silvered thick coating of what looks like paint, consisting of thousands of ciy fish, whieh is a true t^ a m:x^ a « Preddish lateral ririne'. and its tail and fins are *
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Grey River Argus, 9 December 1926, Page 5
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