a verdant youth from the interior of Connecticut

Ladyfishes are elongate, slender, and robust, with a terminal mouth and a deeply forked caudal fin. … Gular plate, located between limbs of lower jaw, is well developed.

If you plan to teach this material to children, you may need to water it down.

The height is 11 cm; the largest diameter, just below the pseudoscule, 4–6 by 9 cm; the thickness of the walls, 2–20 mm.