. 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 -- United States. THE TRIPLETAILS Family XLIX. Lobotid(^ Body oblong, compressed; snout short; eyes well forward; no teeth on palate; soft parts of dorsal and anal fins equal and opposite, the former preceded by a much larger spinous portion; vertebrae 12+12. This family contains but 2 or 3 species, large fishes closely allied to the Serranuicv, but lacking the vomerine and palatine teeth, and with the fo
. 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 -- United States. THE TRIPLETAILS Family XLIX. Lobotid(^ Body oblong, compressed; snout short; eyes well forward; no teeth on palate; soft parts of dorsal and anal fins equal and opposite, the former preceded by a much larger spinous portion; vertebrae 12+12. This family contains but 2 or 3 species, large fishes closely allied to the Serranuicv, but lacking the vomerine and palatine teeth, and with the fore part of the head very short. Our only important species. is the flasher or tripletail, which is found from Surinam northward among the West Indies and occasionally to Cape Cod. It has been re- corded also from the Mediterranean, India, and China. It is only of rare occurrence on our coast. In Indian River, Florida, it is taken only occasionally and is not well known to the fishermen. It is not un- common about Porto Rico. The tripletail is an interesting and attrac- tive fish, reaching a length of 3 feet and a weight of 2S or 30 pounds, and is a good food-fish. We know nothing as to its game qualities. The Lohotes on the Pacific coast of Central America {L. padficits) seems to differ from the tripletail chiefly in the narrower interorbital and the smaller preopercular serrations. Little is known of its habits. 400. 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 original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
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