The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 126
pe. The flounders begin life as do ordinary fishes.When they first emerge from the egg they swimvertically, with the head turned upward. Theirbodies are symmetrical, and their eyes are on op-posite sides of the head. Gradually the positionof the body changes from vertical to horizontal,and the fish… … THE YOUNG OF THE WINDOW-PANE FLOUNDER. This is a left-sided species. In these figures the right eye has begunits passage across the forehead to the left side. The dark spot belowthe right eye in the upper figure is the left eye seen through the trans-parent head. series of remarkable changes. The…
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