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 . ^US TAMPON JORDAN &- EVERMANN Body oblong, compressed, covered with very large, thick,silvery, cycloid scales; belly narrow but not carinated, its edgewith ordinary scales; lateral line nearly straight, its tubes radiatingwidely over the surface of the scales; dorsal fm short and high,inserted behind the ventrals, the last ray long and filamentous; analfin falcate, much longer than the dorsal, its last ray produ
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 . ^US TAMPON JORDAN &- EVERMANN Body oblong, compressed, covered with very large, thick,silvery, cycloid scales; belly narrow but not carinated, its edgewith ordinary scales; lateral line nearly straight, its tubes radiatingwidely over the surface of the scales; dorsal fm short and high,inserted behind the ventrals, the last ray long and filamentous; analfin falcate, much longer than the dorsal, its last ray produced; caudalwidely forked, and more or less scaly. Only one species known. 84 The Tarpon. t M 1 N \
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