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 . SCAMP, Mycteropcrca pheiuu:. SEA BASS, Ceniroprisfes striattis Centropristes a weight of 5 pounds, and is an excellent food-fish. Colour grayishgreen, with obscure broad, dusky streaks and bars, which form reticu-lations on the sides, which are often shaded and mottled with bluishand greenish, but usually without distinct spots; a broad, dark, longi-tudinal shade near axis of body; belly plain silvery gray. The
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 . SCAMP, Mycteropcrca pheiuu:. SEA BASS, Ceniroprisfes striattis Centropristes a weight of 5 pounds, and is an excellent food-fish. Colour grayishgreen, with obscure broad, dusky streaks and bars, which form reticu-lations on the sides, which are often shaded and mottled with bluishand greenish, but usually without distinct spots; a broad, dark, longi-tudinal shade near axis of body; belly plain silvery gray. The genus Centropristes has the body robust, somewhat com-pressed, covered with rather large ctenoid scales; mouth large, formedas in Serrainis and Paralabrax, the canines small; preopercle serrate,the lower teeth somewhat antrorse; supraoccipital and parietal withstrong crests extending forward to between the postfrontal processes;smooth area on top of head very short and small; dorsal short, X, 11 ;anal HI, 7; caudal usually 3-lobed or double concave; canines veryweak. This genus contains 3 species, one of them a very important food-fish. C striatus, variously known as the black sea-bass, blackfish,hannahill
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