By J. Hector, M. D., F. R. S. Dr. Hector called attention to two live specimens of the mud fish from Hokitika, Neochanna apoda of Günther. The specimens were swimming actively in clear water, and had perfect vision, although their eyes are small, so that the undeveloped state of the eye in the specimen previously received, and described by Dr. Günther, must have been exceptional. The Hon. W. Fox remarked that these mud fish were not peculiar to Hokitika, as five years ago he remembered seeing a fish dug up from a gravelly clay ten feet below the surface, at Rangitikei, and he believed that it was identical with the fish exhibited.
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 2, 1869, Page 402
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112On the Mud Fish (Neochanna apoda, Gunther), from Hokitika. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 2, 1869, Page 402
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