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 . short, the second exceedingly large, nearly as long as the soft rays;pectorals and ventrals long; gill-rakers short and bluntish; pseudo-branchiae laro:e. This genus contains 2 species, both American, and both large,coarse fishes, among the largest in the family. The more importantof the 2 species is the common drum or black drum, Pogonias cromis. 466 Aplodinotus The drum is found from New England to the Rio Gra
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 . short, the second exceedingly large, nearly as long as the soft rays;pectorals and ventrals long; gill-rakers short and bluntish; pseudo-branchiae laro:e. This genus contains 2 species, both American, and both large,coarse fishes, among the largest in the family. The more importantof the 2 species is the common drum or black drum, Pogonias cromis. 466 Aplodinotus The drum is found from New England to the Rio Grande, and isa common and well-known fish on sandy shores everywhere, particu-larly southward. It is one of the largest food-fishes on our largest example on record was taken at St. Augustine, Florida,and weighed 146 pounds. Examples weighing 50 to 80 pounds arenot rare, though those seen in market weigh only a few pounds. Thedrum is a sluggish fish, feeding^chiefly at the bottom, where their long,sensitive barbels aid them greatly in their search for food, which con-sists mostly of crustaceans and mollusks, which they easily crush withtheir strong, paved pharyngeal tee
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