. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 19. Fig. 1 - Morone saxatilis. Rockfish in Maryland, striped bass in California. Another category of common names might be called coined or invented names. Many kinds of fishes are known to scientists alone and have only Latin names. If, in writing of one of these animals a common name is re- quired, one is invented. The American Fish- eries Society (1960) has listed all known kinds of fishes living in the United States and C anada to a depth of 100 fathoms. Some of the fishes on this list previously lacked any common name, and others share
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 19. Fig. 1 - Morone saxatilis. Rockfish in Maryland, striped bass in California. Another category of common names might be called coined or invented names. Many kinds of fishes are known to scientists alone and have only Latin names. If, in writing of one of these animals a common name is re- quired, one is invented. The American Fish- eries Society (1960) has listed all known kinds of fishes living in the United States and C anada to a depth of 100 fathoms. Some of the fishes on this list previously lacked any common name, and others shared a common name with one or more species. In order to insure a single common name for every species on the list, a number of names were invented. An- other reason for inventing names is the im- portation into the United States of species from non-English spe aking regions. The aquarium trade is the best example; a brief perusal of any authoritative book on aquarium fishes (for example, Sterba, 1967) will show many fishes from South America and Africa for which English language names have been invented. In a recent popular booklet on Californiandeepseafishes, Fitch and Laven- berg (1968) invented common names for species that previously lacked them. In some situations, scientists who describe a previ- ously unknown species and give it a Latin name also invent a common name. This prac - tice is very common in 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 United States. National Marine Fisheries Service; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; United States. Bureau of Commericial Fisheries. [Washington] : National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt. Print. Off. ]
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