. Fishes. Fishes. 650 Pareioplite, or Mailed-cheek Fishes fat and is much valued as food. About San Francisco it is dry and tasteless. The Greenlings: Hexagrammidae. — The curious family of greenlings, Hexagrammidm, is confined to the two shores of the North Pacific. The species vary much in form, but agree in the unarmed cranium and in the presence of but a single nostril on each side, the posterior opening being reduced to a minute pore. The vertebrse are nimierous, the scales small, and the coloration often brilhant. The species are carnivorous and usually valued as food. They live in the k
. Fishes. Fishes. 650 Pareioplite, or Mailed-cheek Fishes fat and is much valued as food. About San Francisco it is dry and tasteless. The Greenlings: Hexagrammidae. — The curious family of greenlings, Hexagrammidm, is confined to the two shores of the North Pacific. The species vary much in form, but agree in the unarmed cranium and in the presence of but a single nostril on each side, the posterior opening being reduced to a minute pore. The vertebrse are nimierous, the scales small, and the coloration often brilhant. The species are carnivorous and usually valued as food. They live in the kelp and about rocks in California and Japan and along the shores of Siberia and '^^-^-^^. Fig. 547.—Atka-fish, Pleurogrammus monopterygius (Pallas). Atka Island. Alaska. The atka-fish {Pleurogrammus monopterygius) is one of the finest of food-fishes. This species reaches a length of eighteen inches. It is yellow in color, banded with black, and the flesh is white and tender, somewhat like that of the Lake whitefish {Coregonus clupeiformis), and is especially fine when salted. This fish is found about the Aleutian Islands, espe- cially the island of Atka, from which it takes its name. It is commercially known as Atka mackerel. In this genus there are numerous lateral lines, and the dorsal fin is continuous. In Hexagrammos, the principal genus of the family, the dorsal is divided into two fins, and there are about five lateral lines on each side. Hexagrammos decagrammus is common on the coast of Cali- fornia, where it is known by the incorrect name of rock-trout. It is a well-known food-fish, reaching a length of eighteen Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. New York, H. Holt and Company
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