. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. 346 The Bass and their Relatives and dullest in color. Calamus calamus is the saucer-eye porgy, and Calamus proridens, the little-head porgy. Calamus leucosteus is called white-bone porgy, and the small Calamus arctifrons the grass-porgy. The Chopa spina, or pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, is a little porgy with notched incisors, exceedingly common on our South Atlantic coast. In some of the porgies the front teeth instead of being canine- like are compressed and truncate, almost exactly like human incisors. These species are known as she

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. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. 346 The Bass and their Relatives and dullest in color. Calamus calamus is the saucer-eye porgy, and Calamus proridens, the little-head porgy. Calamus leucosteus is called white-bone porgy, and the small Calamus arctifrons the grass-porgy. The Chopa spina, or pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, is a little porgy with notched incisors, exceedingly common on our South Atlantic coast. In some of the porgies the front teeth instead of being canine- like are compressed and truncate, almost exactly like human incisors. These species are known as sheepshead, or sargos. Diplodiis sargus and Diplodns annularis are common sargos of the Mediterranean, silvery, with a black blotch on the back of / S. mi ^- ).} V Lhl). ,, J 1 > *.. ' ^ * all i!«i)ii','»ti. 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

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