. 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. The Kingfishes bb. Mouth smaller, the maxillary scarcely reaching eye, }\ in head. iiiiJulatns, 465 aa. Gill-rakers present, very short and rather slender littoralis, 465 The most important species is the sand whiting or Carolina whit- ing, Meiiticirrhus americanus. It is found on our South Atlantic and. Gulf coasts from the Chesapeake Bay to Texas. It is very common on sandy shores sout
. 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. The Kingfishes bb. Mouth smaller, the maxillary scarcely reaching eye, }\ in head. iiiiJulatns, 465 aa. Gill-rakers present, very short and rather slender littoralis, 465 The most important species is the sand whiting or Carolina whit- ing, Meiiticirrhus americanus. It is found on our South Atlantic and. Gulf coasts from the Chesapeake Bay to Texas. It is very common on sandy shores southward, and is a food-fish of considerable importance. Colour, grayish silvery, with obscure darker clouds along back and sides, these marks forming dusky bars running obliquely forward and downward to below the lateral line, the bar at the nape saddle- shaped. The Northern whiting, kingfish, or sea-mink, M. saxatiiis, is found from Cape Ann to Key West and Pensacola, its centre of greatest abundance being northward, it is a good food-fish. Colour, dusky- gray above, sometimes blackish, the back and sides with distinct dark oblique cross-bands running downward and forward, the anterior one at the nape extending downward, meeting the second and thus forming a V-shaped blotch on each side. The California whiting, M. itndiilatiis, occurs from the Santa Barbara Islands southward on sandy shores, and is a food-fish of some value. M. elongatiis is found from JVlazatlan to Panama and is very common in the surf Colour, bluish on back and sides, silvery below, without stripes or bands. The surf whiting or silver whiting, M. littoralis, is found on sandy shores from the Carolinas to Texas and is generally common. Colour, silvery gray above, with bluish and bronze reflections, with- 465. 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
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