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 . known species of the genus. It is very common in the streams ofPorto Rico and is much used as food. It reaches a length of a foot. Colour, brownish above, scales very dark-edged on upper f ofside; under parts white; top of head dark; cheeks and opercleswhite with brassy shades; axil black; a black blotch at base of caudal,disappearing with age; dorsal spines dark; soft dorsal brassy atbase, pale at tip; pectoral
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 . known species of the genus. It is very common in the streams ofPorto Rico and is much used as food. It reaches a length of a foot. Colour, brownish above, scales very dark-edged on upper f ofside; under parts white; top of head dark; cheeks and opercleswhite with brassy shades; axil black; a black blotch at base of caudal,disappearing with age; dorsal spines dark; soft dorsal brassy atbase, pale at tip; pectoral and ventrals pale; anal yellowish, paleat tip; caudal darker, yellowish at base; peritoneum black. The genus Jotunis, characterized by the simple stomach andthe coarse truncate incisors, contains only one species. This is thejoturo or bobo (J. pilchardi). This species of mullet is an in-. habitant of mountain torrents in the l,arger islands of the WestIndies, also in Costa Rica, and about Vera Cruz and Panama. Itattains a length of 2 feet and is one of the largest of the family. It comes to the Havana market from the Rio Almendares andis a food-fish of some importance. 257 THE BARRACUDAS Family XXVII. SphyrcBiiidcB Body elongate, subterete, covered with small cycloid scales;head very long, pointed, pike-like, scaly above and on sides;mouth large, horizontal; jaws long, lower projecting; upper jawnot protractile, its border formed by the premaxillaries behindwhich are the broad maxillaries; large, sharp, unequal teeth onboth jaws and palatines, none on vomer; usually a very strong,sharp canine near tip of lower jaw; opercular bones withoutspines or serrations; gill-openings wide, the membranes not united,free from the isthmus; gillrakers very short or obsolete; pseudo-branchiae well developed; lateral line well developed and family contains a single genus w
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