. 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. Fishes -- North America. Pigfish; Hogfish bright bronze spot behind its centre, these forming nearly continuous streaks along the rows of scales, running upward and backward ante- riorly and nearly horizontally on side, where they are more or less in- terrupted or transposed; head plain gray; dorsal with some streaks; ventrals somewhat dusky. O, chalceits occurs on the coast of tropical America, from the Gulf of
. 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. Fishes -- North America. Pigfish; Hogfish bright bronze spot behind its centre, these forming nearly continuous streaks along the rows of scales, running upward and backward ante- riorly and nearly horizontally on side, where they are more or less in- terrupted or transposed; head plain gray; dorsal with some streaks; ventrals somewhat dusky. O, chalceits occurs on the coast of tropical America, from the Gulf of California to the Galapagos Islands, and is rather common, especially at Cape San Lucas and Mazatlan. It reaches 18 inches in length, and is a good food-fish. Colour, paler than in related species; pale chalky bluish streaks along the edges of the rows of scales; a pale streak below base of dorsal; fins rather pale, the soft dorsal mottled with darker. The young have broad diffuse dusky cross-bands on the side. O. poeyi is a rare species known only from Havana. It is close to O. clirysopterus, but the body is more slender, and the scales are rather larger. O. cantharinus is known only from the Galapagos Islands. It reaches a foot in length, and is apparently close to O. clirysopterus. Colour, brownish gray above, soiled silvery below; upper parts with 8 diffuse cross-bands, as wide as the interspaces extending to below middle of side; membrane of opercle dark; some dark streaks fol- lowing rows of scales; dorsal with some dull orange and some pale round length Pigfish; Hogfish Orthopristis chrysoptcrus (Linnaeus) This is the most important food-fish of the genus. It reaches a th of 12 to 15 inches, and occurs on the South Atlantic and Gult 434. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan,
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