FURTHER RECORD OF WINTER FISH STRANDING IN THE VICINITY OF SETO

Abstract

In January this year, this region was attacked by sudden drop of the atmospheric temperature continuously for about six days. Early morning of January 19, the junior author was awaked by Mr. Y. MAKINO, the head clerk of the laboratory, who found innumerable fishes stranded on the beach near the laboratory on the way of his daily walk. Immediately he went down to the beach with one of the aquarium members to examine those fishes, found that most of them were coral fishes, and began to collect them for further studies. The senior author made a dive in the shallow water. around the laboratory in that afternoon and observed that such tropical fishes as Apogon c_yanosoma BLEEKER, Abudifduf vaigiensis (Quoy & GAIMARD) and Acanthurus bariene LEs-SON were just losing the balance and dying.