Show FISH THAT CANNOT SWIM many examples found in dwellers in the ocean more than one species of elsh Is met with which cannot swim the most singular of which perhaps Is the mal tha a brazilian fish whose organs of locomotion only enable it to crawl or walk or hop after the manner of a toad to which animal this fish to some extent bears a resemblance and it Is provided with a long upturned snout the anterior breast fins of the maltha which are quite small are not capable of acting on the water but can only move backward and forward having truly the form of thin paws both these and its other fins are very different from the similar fans in other fishes and could not serve for swim ming at all other examples of non swimming fishes include the seahorse a most peculiarly shaped inhabitant of the sea which resembles the knight in a set of chessmen and the starfish of which there are many specimens that mostly walk and crawl on the shore or rocks both being unable to swim montreal herald |