The food and game fishes of New York: . THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 45 Il6. Red Snapper (NcoiiKenis blackfordi Goode & Bean). LiitjaiiKS /ihu-kjiin/ii(,<.-)in) Dean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mui., I, 176, 1878 (full description of adult); II, IJ7, 138, 1879, characters and measurements of young; GooDE, (lame Fishes N. .\., 16, 1878, with colored (tjaiiii$ blackfordi Jord. & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 549, 1SS3; ]5ean, 19th Rept. Comm. Fish. N. Y., 263, pi. XVI, fig. 20, nya Jordan & Evermaxx, 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1264, 1898, pi. CXCVII, fig. 516
The food and game fishes of New York: . THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 45 Il6. Red Snapper (NcoiiKenis blackfordi Goode & Bean). LiitjaiiKS /ihu-kjiin/ii(,<.-)in) Dean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mui., I, 176, 1878 (full description of adult); II, IJ7, 138, 1879, characters and measurements of young; GooDE, (lame Fishes N. .\., 16, 1878, with colored (tjaiiii$ blackfordi Jord. & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 549, 1SS3; ]5ean, 19th Rept. Comm. Fish. N. Y., 263, pi. XVI, fig. 20, nya Jordan & Evermaxx, 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1264, 1898, pi. CXCVII, fig. 516, 1900 (not Bodiaiiiis aya Bloch, Ichth., 227, 1790); H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 100, 1898. Color uniform .scarlet. Center of scales lighter, also the belly, which is silvery ;inside of axil of pectoral darker red sxappkr. On October 26, 1887, Mr. E. G. Blackford, Pish Commissioner of the State ofNew York, forwarded to the National Museum a young Red .Snapper, four and onehalf inches long, which was caught in Great South Bay, at Bay Shore, Long is the smallest Red Snapper that we have obtained, and it is the first record ofthe occurrence of the species so far north. The specimen has been catalogued as39,213 of the National Museum Fish Register. As in other young fishes the size of the eye, the length of the head and thecolors are different from these characters in the adult. A description of the colors of the fresh fish follows : A dark band nearly as wide as the diameter of the eye is placed immediately infront of the spinous dorsal ; it fades out about the median line of the body. Threesimilar bands, and of like size, under the dorsal, separated by narrow interspaces andfading out below. The fourth band contains a blotch as large as the eye, whichpasses slightly beneath the la
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