海底兩萬里 第195期 第14章 黑潮暖流(9)

Quarto, Conseil went on, unabashed, the apods, with long bodies that lack pelvic fins and are covered by a heavy, often glutinous skin, an order consisting of only one family. Examples: common eels and electric eels.

第四目是無腹鰭魚，康塞爾興致絲毫不減地又說，魚身很長，沒有腹鰭，身上有很厚的帶粘性的皮;這一目只。有一科。類型是：鱔魚、鰻魚、電鰻魚。味道平常!

So-so, just so-so! Ned Land replied.

味道平常!尼德.蘭答。

Quinto, Conseil said, the lophobranchians, which have fully formed, free-moving jawsbut whose gills consist of little tufts arranged in pairs along their gill arches.

第五目是總鰓魚、康塞爾說，鰓是完全的和自由的，但由許多小刷子構(gòu)成，一對一對地排在鰓環(huán)節(jié)上。

This order includes only one family. Examples: seahorses and dragonfish.

這一目只有一科。類型是：海馬魚、龍馬魚。

Bad, very bad! the harpooner replied.

不好吃!不好吃!魚叉手回答。

Sexto and last, Conseil said, the plectognaths, whose maxillary bone is firmly attached to the side of the intermaxillary that forms the jaw, and whose palate arch is locked to the skull by sutures that render the jaw immovable, an order lacking true pelvic fins and which consists of two families.

康塞爾說：最后第六目是固顎魚，顎骨是固定在齒顎的顎間骨邊上，上顎的拱形骨跟頭蓋骨縫連接在一起，因而!固定不動，這一目沒有真正的腹鰭，共有兩科。

Examples: puffers and moonfish.

類型是：魄魚、銀鰻。

They're an insult to a frying pan! the Canadian exclaimed.

這些魚，用鍋來煮，鍋也丟臉!加拿大人喊道。

Are you grasping all this, Ned my friend? asked the scholarly Conseil.

尼德·蘭老朋友，您明白了嗎?博學(xué)的康塞爾問。

Not a lick of it, Conseil my friend, the harpooner replied. But keep going, because you fill me withfascination.

一點也不明白，康塞爾老朋友，魚叉手回答，請您說下去，因為您對這很感興趣。

As for cartilaginous fish, Conseil went on unflappably, they consist of only three orders.

至于軟骨魚類，康塞爾很冷靜地又說，那就只有三目。

Good news, Ned put in.

這更省事了。尼德·蘭說。

Primo, the cyclostomes, whose jaws are fused into a flexible ring and whose gill openings are simply a large number of holes, an order consisting of only one family. Example: the lamprey.

第一目，圓口魚，鰓合成為一個轉(zhuǎn)動的圈環(huán)，魚鰓開合有許多小孔，這一目只有一科。類型：人目鰻。

An acquired taste, Ned Land replied.

這魚，我們很喜歡吃。尼德·蘭回答。