As for fish, they were numerous and often remarkable. Here are
the ones that the Nautilus's nets most frequently hauled on board:
rays, including spotted rays that were oval in shape and brick red
in color, their bodies strewn with erratic blue speckles and
identifiable by their jagged double stings, silver–backed skates,
common stingrays with stippled tails, butterfly rays that looked
like huge two–meter cloaks flapping at middepth, toothless
guitarfish that were a type of cartilaginous fish closer to the
shark, trunkfish known as dromedaries that were one and a half feet
long and had humps ending in backward–curving stings, serpentine
moray eels with silver tails and bluish backs plus brown pectorals
trimmed in gray piping, a species of butterfish called the fiatola
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