Fishes . stris, also Japanese, remarkablefor the long snout and high fins. Both are rare in Japanesemarkets. All these are eccentric variations from the perch-like type. The Snappers: Lutianidas.—Scarcely less mmierous and variedthan the sea-bass is the great family of Luttamda, knownin America as snappers or pargos. In these fishes the maxillaryslips along its edge into a sheath formed by the broad preor-bital. In the Serrantda there is no such sheath. In the Luti-anidw there is no supplemental maxillary, teeth are presenton the vomer and palatines, and in the jaws there are distinctcanines.
Fishes . stris, also Japanese, remarkablefor the long snout and high fins. Both are rare in Japanesemarkets. All these are eccentric variations from the perch-like type. The Snappers: Lutianidas.—Scarcely less mmierous and variedthan the sea-bass is the great family of Luttamda, knownin America as snappers or pargos. In these fishes the maxillaryslips along its edge into a sheath formed by the broad preor-bital. In the Serrantda there is no such sheath. In the Luti-anidw there is no supplemental maxillary, teeth are presenton the vomer and palatines, and in the jaws there are distinctcanines. These fishes of the warm seas are all carnivorous,voracious, gamy, excellent as food though seldom of fine grain,the flesh being white and not flaky. About 250 species areknowTi, and in all warm seas they are abundant. To the great genus Lutianus most of the species belong. Theseare the snappers of our markets and the pargos of the Spanish-speaking fishermen. The shore species are green in color, mostly. > o 2 ?c a. The Bass and their Relatives 540 banded, spotted, or streaked. In deeper water bright-red spe-cies are found. One of these, Liitiaiius aya, the red snapper orpargo guachinango of the Gulf of ]\Iexico, is, economicallyspeaking, the most important of all these fishes in the UnitedStates. It is a large, rather coarse fish, bright red in color,and it is taken on long lines on rocky reefs chiefly about Pen-sacola and Tampa in Florida, although similar fisheries existon the shores of Yucatan and Brazil. A related species is the Lutianns analis, the mutton snapperor pargo criollo of the West Indies. This is one of the staple \
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