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 . d skill. Among the places on our southern coast where excellent tarponfishing has been obtained are along the west coast of Florida fromPunta Gorda southward to Indian River and Lake Worth, aboutKey West, in Mississippi Sound, and at Galveston and Corpus Christi,Texas. Fort Meyers, on the west coast of Florida has, perhaps, beenthe most popular resort. 8s The Bony-fish; Ten-pounder Head 4; depth 3*; eye 4^; snou
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 . d skill. Among the places on our southern coast where excellent tarponfishing has been obtained are along the west coast of Florida fromPunta Gorda southward to Indian River and Lake Worth, aboutKey West, in Mississippi Sound, and at Galveston and Corpus Christi,Texas. Fort Meyers, on the west coast of Florida has, perhaps, beenthe most popular resort. 8s The Bony-fish; Ten-pounder Head 4; depth 3*; eye 4^; snout 5; maxillary if; D. 12; A20; scales 5-42-5; branchiostegals 23; dorsal filament longer than thehead. Colour, uniform bright silvery, darkish on back. The propor-tional measurements in the young are somewhat different, in examplesof 3 inches long being as follows: Head 3^; depth 4I; eye 3I;snout 4f. GENUS ELOPS LINN^US Body elongate, covered with small, thin, silvery scales; dorsalslightly behind ventrals, its rays short; lateral line straight, its tubessimple. Large fishes of the open seas, remarkable for the develop-ment of scaly sheaths. Only a single species in our Bony-fish ; Ten-pounder £/oJ)s saurus Linnaeus An abundant and widely distributed fish, found in all tropicalseas; common in America north to the Carolinas and the Gulf ofCalifornia. On our coasts it is probably most numerous in Florida. It reaches a length of 2 to 3 feet and a weight of several young are ribbon-shaped, long, thin, and transparent, passingthrough a metamorphosis analogous to that seen in the conger are at first band-shaped, with very small head and loose,transparent tissues. From this condition they become graduallyshorter and more compact, shrinking from }\ inches to 2 inches inlength. During these stages the young of this species, the lady-fish,and other fishes which undergo similar changes, are the so-called 86
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