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 . w ^. o Mycteroperca This species reaches 8 inches in length and is rather common onour Pacific coast from Mazatlan to Panama. The genus Dcrmatolepis resembles Epjnephehis, but it has the bodyshorter and deeper, the head small and much compressed, the interor-bital narrow, the soft dorsal very long, the anal short, and the scalesall cycloid, small, and embedded. Four species are known, 3 of which occur in our wat


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 . w ^. o Mycteroperca This species reaches 8 inches in length and is rather common onour Pacific coast from Mazatlan to Panama. The genus Dcrmatolepis resembles Epjnephehis, but it has the bodyshorter and deeper, the head small and much compressed, the interor-bital narrow, the soft dorsal very long, the anal short, and the scalesall cycloid, small, and embedded. Four species are known, 3 of which occur in our waters. Noneof them is of much value as food. The accompanying illustration ofour most interesting species, D. lancliis, will serve to indicate the


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