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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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America, fromBrazil to Maine, and Peru to Cape San Lucas. It is generallycommon southward, only the young usually coming northwardin the Gulf Stream. It reaches a length of nearly a foot, and isan excellent little food-fish. Colour, greenish above, golden or silvery below; young witha black blotch at origin of straight part of lateral line. Corcobado Vomer gabonetisis Guichenot The corcobado is a fish that was but little known until therecent investigations by the U. S. Fish Commission in Porto Rico,when numerous specimens were obtained, it is now known fromBrazil, San Domingo, Jamaica, and Porto Rico; also from thewest coast of Africa. It attains a length of 8 or 9 inches, andis a good food-fish. From V. setipinnis, which it resembles, itmay be distinguished by the much deeper body, larger eye,greater elevation of the occipital region, and the more nearlyvertical anterior profile. The young of the two species resembleeach other more closely. At a length of 4 inches the difference 310
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The Silvery Moon-fishes in relation of depth to length becomes apparent, but under thatsize the present species is distinguished by its larger eye. Body ovate, scarcely longer than deep, very greatly com-pressed; occipital region greatly elevated, making height of bodygreatest at the eyes; anterior profile nearly vertical from occiputto eye, opposite which it becomes concave; snout protruding.Colour, rich silvery, with an iridescence of steel-blue above andpink below, with a light golden wash below. GENUS SELENE LACEPEDE The Silvery Moon-fishes This genus is very close to bonier, from which it differs inthe entire absence of scutes on the lateral line. All the speciesare found in tropical seas, only 2 coming within our limits.The first of these is the Pacitlc moon-fish (S. cerstedii) which isfound on the Mexican coast from Mazatlan to Panama. It reaches15 inches in length, and possesses some food-value. From ourAtlantic species it may be distinguished by its smaller fins, thedorsal ha

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