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Title: American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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I- 6 I o a: *^ I o (O CD ^%%%^/^/jil; Mahogany Snapper long and weighed about 2 pounds. About this island it is known asmanchego, mancheva, or raiado, and is highly esteemed as a food-fish. Mahogany Snapper Lutiamis mahogoni (Cuvier & Valenciennes) This is a small snapper occurring in the West Indies. It israther common in the markets of Havana, where it is known asojanco, in allusion to the large eye. It does not exceed 8 or 10 inchesin length. Colour in life, deep brown, silvery below, everywhere shadedwith red, especially on head; eye, which is 3f in head, scarlet; a largeblackish blotch on side, chiefly above lateral line and below first raysof soft dorsal; maxillary yellow on covered parts; narrow bronzestreaks following rows of scales, these most distinct above lateral line;dorsal fm pale, edged with blood-red; caudal deep red; anal, ventrals,and pectorals scarlet; the bright colours fade and disappear in spirits,leaving the back dark gray, the lower part silvery, more or le

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