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 . found among the West Indies and occasionally north to CapeCod. On the Pacific Coast it occurs from Cape San Lucassouthward. Among the Hawaiian Islands it is an abundant andimportant food-fish and is known as the akule. Its commonnames in American waters are goggler, big-eyed scad, and goggle-eyed jack. The genus Hemicaranx differs from Carangits chiefly in thenarrow maxillary. Our waters contain 6 or 7 species,
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 . found among the West Indies and occasionally north to CapeCod. On the Pacific Coast it occurs from Cape San Lucassouthward. Among the Hawaiian Islands it is an abundant andimportant food-fish and is known as the akule. Its commonnames in American waters are goggler, big-eyed scad, and goggle-eyed jack. The genus Hemicaranx differs from Carangits chiefly in thenarrow maxillary. Our waters contain 6 or 7 species, none ofgreat value as food. The most important is H. amblyrhynchus, \ /. which is found from Cape Hatteras to Brazil. It is rather com-mon among the West Indies, and is seen now and then onthe Florida coast. i^l GENUS CARANGUS GRIFFITHThe Cavallas Body ovate or oblong, compressed, the back sometimes con-siderably elevated; mouth moderate or large, oblique; maxillarybroad, reaching below eye, v^^ith a well-developed supplementalbone; premaxillaries protractile; teeth in one or few series, un-equal, or at least not in villiform bands; villiform teeth usuallypresent on vomer, palatines and tongue, deciduous or wanting insome species; gillrakers long; eye large with an adipose eyelid;dorsal spines rather low, connected; second dorsal long, usuallyelevated in front, both fins depressible in a groove; anal similar tosecond dorsal and nearly as long, preceded by 2 rather strongspines, its base longer than the abdomen; caudal fin stronglyforked, the peduncle very slender; pectoral falcate; no finlets;scales present, usually very small; lateral line with its poster
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