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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1867.12. Gunther / Labrus mixtus. CUL-DAR82.B9. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).

Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 19, n31: "According to the observations of M. Gerbe; see Günther's 'Record of Zoolog. Literature,' 1865, p. 194."]

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Gunther Dec 67

Labrus mixtus, male orange with various bright blue stripes, female bright red with some black marks; hard to say which is brightest. Now this fish is closely allied to

*Crenilabrus which makes nests, male & female taking equal share; see Zoolog Record 1865 p. 194. With respect to the Labrus, G. remarks that black in the lower vertebrate classes is an eminently masculine colour.

There is nothing peculiar in the egg laying of Callionymus maculates.

Cuvier 2. p. 242. Gobius nest & do sexes differ at all?

How is fish which lays eggs in nests of male - or is marsupial fish

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Zoolog Record 1865 p. 194

Crenilabrus massa & melops, which build nests are they brightly coloured species?

is it known whether because brighter during breeding

D not

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