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 . very in colouration. Some of them are remarkable for the great sizeof the second anal spine, while in others it is quite small. 460 Sciaenops The only species which is of much food-value is the yellowtail ormademoiselle. It is a well-known fish, very common from NewEngland to Texas on sandy shores. It is most abundant reaches a foot or less in length and is a most excellent pan-fish. Colour, greenis
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 . very in colouration. Some of them are remarkable for the great sizeof the second anal spine, while in others it is quite small. 460 Sciaenops The only species which is of much food-value is the yellowtail ormademoiselle. It is a well-known fish, very common from NewEngland to Texas on sandy shores. It is most abundant reaches a foot or less in length and is a most excellent pan-fish. Colour, greenish above, silvery below; back and sides more orless densely punctate with dark dots, forming narrow, somewhatirregular streaks; fins plain, mostly yellow in life. GENUS SC/y^NOPS GILL This genus is very close to Ophiosciou, from which it differs inthe loss of the preopercular spines with age, the serrate edge of thebone becoming entire; caudal truncate or concave; soft dorsal scale-less; slits and pores of upper jaw well developed. The genus contains but one species, Scicenops ocellatus, the red-drum, channel-bass, redtlsh, bull redfish, or pescado Colorado, well. known as an abundant and important food-fish of our South Atlanticand Gulf coasts, from New York to Texas. It is very abundant,especially southward, and is of rare occurrence north of Virginia. It isfifth among the commercial fishes of Indian River, but is rare at KeyWest. On the Texas coast it is the most abundant food-fish. Itshabits have never been fully studied. In Indian River it seems to beresident, being most common in winter and early spring. Thelarger individuals, such as are usually called channel-bass, appear toleave the river for a brief time during the coldest season, and they also 461 Leiostomus go outside for a time during the warmest period. The spawningseason here probably extends from spring to fall and the fish probablyspawn inside the river. The food of the red-drum consists chiefly of small fish su
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