. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. 34° The Bass and their Relatives the Mediterranean, Dentex dentex. Very many related species occur in the old world, the prettily colored Nemipterus virgatus, the Itoyori of Japan being one of the best known. Another interesting fish is Aphareus furcatus, a handsome, swift fish of the open seas occasionally taken in Japan and the East Indies. Glaucosoma hnrgcri is a large snapper of Japan, and a related species, Glaucosoma hehraicum, is one of the " jewfishes" of Austraha. Numerous fossil forms referred to Dentex occur in the
. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. 34° The Bass and their Relatives the Mediterranean, Dentex dentex. Very many related species occur in the old world, the prettily colored Nemipterus virgatus, the Itoyori of Japan being one of the best known. Another interesting fish is Aphareus furcatus, a handsome, swift fish of the open seas occasionally taken in Japan and the East Indies. Glaucosoma hnrgcri is a large snapper of Japan, and a related species, Glaucosoma hehraicum, is one of the " jewfishes" of Austraha. Numerous fossil forms referred to Dentex occur in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, as also a fish called Ctenodeiitex lackeniensis from the Eocene of Belgium. The Grunts: Haemulidse. — The large family of Hcemulidce, known in America as grunters or roncos, is represented with the. Fig. 277.—Grant, Hamuhn plumicri (Bloch). Charleston, S. C. snappers in all tropical seas. The common names (Spanish, roncar, to grunt or snore) refer to the noise made either with their large pharyngeal teeth or with the complex air-bladder. These fishes differ from the Lntiauincc mainly in the feebler detention, there being no canines and no teeth on the vomer. Most of the American species belong to the genus Hcsmulon or red-mouth grunts, so called from the dash of scarlet at the corner of the mouth. HcBmulon plumieri, the common grunt, or ronco arard, is the most abundant species, known by the narrow blue stripes across the head. In the yellow grunt, ronco amarillo {HcBmulon sciurus), these stripes cross the whole. 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, David Starr, 1851-1931. New York, H. Holt
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