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 . Island to Monterey Bay. It is most common southward. The remaining species is H. lagocephalus, known only fromBering Sea. The genus Ophidion, which may be distinguished from the2 preceding genera by its single lateral line, contains but onespecies. This is O. elongatus, known as the cultus cod, bluecod, or buffalo cod. The cultus cod is a large, coarse llsh, the 502 The Greenlings. Iarge<?t of the family, rea
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 . Island to Monterey Bay. It is most common southward. The remaining species is H. lagocephalus, known only fromBering Sea. The genus Ophidion, which may be distinguished from the2 preceding genera by its single lateral line, contains but onespecies. This is O. elongatus, known as the cultus cod, bluecod, or buffalo cod. The cultus cod is a large, coarse llsh, the 502 The Greenlings. Iarge<?t of the family, reaching a length of 3 to 4 feet and aweight of 30 or 40 pounds. It is found from Sitka to SantaBarbara and is one of the most common and most importantfood-fishes of our Pacific Coast. Though the flesh is livid blueor green in colour it is not unwholesome. 503 THE TILEFISHES Family LXIX. Latilidcs Body more or less elongate, fusiform or compressed; headsubconical, the anterior profile usually convex; suborbital withoutbony stay; cranial bones not cavernous; opercular bones mostlyunarmed; mouth rather terminal, little oblique; teeth rather strong,none on vomer or palatines; premaxillaries protractile, each usu-ally with a blunt, posterior canine; maxillary without supple-mental bone; pseudobranchioe well developed; gill-membranesseparate, more or less free from the isthmus; scales small,ctenoid; lateral line present, complete, more or less concurrentwith the back; dorsal fm long and low, usually continuous, thespinous portion always lower than soft part, but
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