. 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 . Fishes; Fishes; Fishes. Paralabrax The known species of this genus are confined to the coasts of tropicni America, vvlieie they are important food-fishes. There are 4 within oui- limits. Paralabrax uchiilifcr, tlie johnny-verde, occurs on OLir Paciiic coast from Montei'ev to Lower Califoimia. It is generally common in siiallow water, reaches 18 inches in length, and is a food- fish of excellent quality. Its col
. 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 . Fishes; Fishes; Fishes. Paralabrax The known species of this genus are confined to the coasts of tropicni America, vvlieie they are important food-fishes. There are 4 within oui- limits. Paralabrax uchiilifcr, tlie johnny-verde, occurs on OLir Paciiic coast from Montei'ev to Lower Califoimia. It is generally common in siiallow water, reaches 18 inches in length, and is a food- fish of excellent quality. Its colour is greenish, with irregular pale and dark mottlings and traces of dark oblique cross-bars; suborbital and cheek profusely marked with round orange spots; a dark streak down- ward and backward from eye; lower side of head salmon colour; lower side of tail with wavy whitish The spotted cabrilla, P. maciilatofasciattts, occurs from San Pedro, California, to Mazatlan and in the Gulf of California. It is everywhere common on sandy shores, and is an excellent food-fish, reaching a length of 18 inches. Colour, olive-brown, thickly covered everywhere above with dark hexagonal or roundish spots, so close together that the ground colour appears as reticulations around them; these spots more or less con- fluent on the back, and more distinct and tinged with orange on sides of head, branchiostegals, and on base of pectorals; about 7 dusky cross-bars on side, in which the spots are deepei- in colour and more confluent; a bluish stripe from eye across cheek; lower parts yellow; dorsal and caudal with bronze spots. P. liiimcralis is found from Panama southward. It reaches 2 or 3 feet in length, is found in rather deep water, and is a valuable fish. P. clathrafiis, the rock-bass of the California coast, occurs from San Francisco southward to Cerros Island. It is the most common species of the genus in those waters, reaches a length of 18 inches and 39<^. Please note that these
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