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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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the swine-like appearanceof the head, jaws and teeth. Like all other members of thisfamily, it feeds chiefly on small fishes, mollusks and crustaceans. The hogfish is an important food-fish throughout its range,and is one of the most common and attractive fishes seen inthe wells of the fishing-boats of Key West and Nassau. It is afavourite fish in Cuba, though at one time its sale was forbiddenby law on account of the supposed poisonous character of itsflesh. This opinion obtains to some extent in Porto Rico, but 478 The Wrasse-Fishes apparently it is only tlie large individuals that are under the ban.The genus Pimelomeiopon is close to Harpe, from which itdiffers chiefly in the naked dorsal and smaller scales. It contains2 species, robust tlshes of large size and bright colours. P. piilcheris (male) purplish-black on head, dorsal, anal and caudal fins, andposterior part of body forward to vent; lower jaw white; rest ofbody varying in tint from clear crimson to blackish, with coppery
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or purplish lustre; female dusky rose-colour, with black areas ill-defined or obsolete. This curious fish, known as the Californiaredfish, or fathead, is very common on the California coast fromPoint Conception to Lower California. It reaches 12 to 15 poundsin weight, and 3 feet in length, and is taken in large numbersin the kelp off the shore, with hook and line, chiefly by Chinese,who salt and dry them. 479 THE PARROT-FISHES Family LX, ScaridiS Body oblong, moderately compressed, covered with large cy-cloid scales; mouth moderate, terminal; teeth in the jaws moreor less coalescent at least at base; lower pharyngeals much en-larged, united in a concave or spoon-shaped body, their teethbroadest transversely, and truncate, arranged in mosaic; dorsalcontinuous, its formula usually IX, lo; anal II, 9; 23 to 25 scalesin the lateral line. Sexes similarly coloured, the colouration almostalways brilliant. This is a large family with some 7 genera and more thana hundred species, often of larg

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