Fishes . Surmullets, Croakers, etc. 567 peneus martinicus, equally valued. Many other species arefound in tropical America, Polynesia, and the Indies and the most notable are Upeneus vitiatns, striped withyellow and with the caudal fin cross-barred and the belly sul-phur-yellow, and Upeneus arge, similar, the belly white. Thecommon red and black-banded moana or goatfish of Hawaiiis Pseadupeneus multijasciatus. No fossil MulUdcB are recorded, so far as known to us. The Croakers: Sciaenidae. — The family of SctcBnidce (croak-ers, roncadors) is another of the great groups of food-fi
Fishes . Surmullets, Croakers, etc. 567 peneus martinicus, equally valued. Many other species arefound in tropical America, Polynesia, and the Indies and the most notable are Upeneus vitiatns, striped withyellow and with the caudal fin cross-barred and the belly sul-phur-yellow, and Upeneus arge, similar, the belly white. Thecommon red and black-banded moana or goatfish of Hawaiiis Pseadupeneus multijasciatus. No fossil MulUdcB are recorded, so far as known to us. The Croakers: Sciaenidae. — The family of SctcBnidce (croak-ers, roncadors) is another of the great groups of species are found on every sandy shore in warm regionsand all of them are large enough to have value as food, whilemany have flesh of superior quality. None is brightly colored,most of the species being nearly plain silvery. Special characters are the cavernous structure of the bonesof the head, which are full of mucous tracts, the specialization. Fig. 460.—Spotted Weakfish, CynosHon nehulmtus. Virginia. (and occasional absence) of the air-bladder, and the presenceof never more than two anal spines, one of these being some-times very large. Most of the species are marine, all are car-nivorous ; none inhabits rocky places and none descends to depthsin the sea. At the least specialized extreme of the family,the mouth is large with strong canines and the species areslender, swift, and predaceous. The weakfish or squeteague {Cynoscion regalis) is a typeof a multitude of species, large, swift, voracious, but with ten-der flesh, which is easily torn. The common weakfish, abun-dant on our Atlantic coast, suffers much at the hands of its 568 Surmullets, Croakers, etc. enemy and associate, the bluefish. It is one of the best of allour food-fishes. Farther south the spotted weakfish {Cyyio-scion iiebtUosus), very incorrectly known as sea-trout, takes itsplace, and about New Orleans is especially and justly prized. The California bluefi
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