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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
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a few of the species are of any food-value. There are in our waters 2 genera with about 6 species,only a few of which are of any value for food. The American species of Teuthis may be distinguished asfollows: a. Outline rhomboid, the depth i^ in length; colour brown washed with blue; ccvrnletis, 486 aa. Outline ovate, the depth about 2 in length; colour brown,never blue. b. Caudal simply lunate; hepatiis, 487 bb. Caudal deeply emarginate. c. Upper lobe of caudal not filamentous; cresionis, 487 cc. Upper lobe of caudal produced in a long filament; bahianiis, 487 The species of Teuthis are known variously as surgeon-fish,doctor-fish, lancet-fish, barbers and tangs; and among Spanishfishermen as Barberos and Medicos—all of the same origin andmeaning the same thing; for the barbers were the first me-dicos who combined the practice of phlebotomy with theirregular vocation. T. cceruleiis is one of our best known species, as it isquite common from Key West to Bahia. It is the blue tang 486
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The Tangs and is common about Porto Rico where it is used as food, itreadies 8 or lo inches in length and is usually found amongalgae in shallow water, though the larger individuals are foundat greater depths.

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