. 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 . Fishes; Fishes; Fishes. The Frigate Mackerel depressed, with a rather large keel on each side; first dorsal short, some distance from second; second dorsal and anal small, each with 7 or 8 finlets; no air-bladder; gillrakers numerous, very long and slender. The only species of this genus is the frigate mackerel {y^. fha^ard). This fish occurs in all warm seas. On our Atlantic. Coast it is seen occasionally as f
. 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 . Fishes; Fishes; Fishes. The Frigate Mackerel depressed, with a rather large keel on each side; first dorsal short, some distance from second; second dorsal and anal small, each with 7 or 8 finlets; no air-bladder; gillrakers numerous, very long and slender. The only species of this genus is the frigate mackerel {y^. fha^ard). This fish occurs in all warm seas. On our Atlantic. Coast it is seen occasionally as far north as Cape Cod. it ap- pears to be very erratic in its movements, and rarely reaches the United States coasts. It swims in large schools and sometimes appears in immense numbers. In the Adriatic it is called " Tim- ; It resembles in some respects the common mackerel; in other characters it resembles the bonito, the genus Aiixis being inter- mediate between Scomber and the related genera Pelamys and Orcytms. It is not much valued as food. Colour, blue, variegated with darker above, becoming paler with age; belly silvery. GENUS GYMNOSARDA GILL The Little Tunnies This genus differs from that of the great tunnies in the ab- sence of teeth on the vomer, the complete absence of scales outside the corselet, and in the peculiar development, in the form of a network or trellis, of a portion of the abdominal part of the backbone. 277. 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; Evermann, Barton Warren, joint author. Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page
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