Fishes . Fig. 343 —Blue Smelt or Fez del Rey, Atherinopsis californiensis Girard. San Diego. in the sea along the California coast, where they are knownfamiliarly as blue smelt or Peixe Re. The most impor-tant of these and the largest member of the family, reachinga length of eighteen inches, is Atherinopsis californiensis, animportant food-fish throughout California, everywhere wronglyknown as smelt. Atherinops affinis is much like it, but has. Fig. 343.—Flower of the surf. Iso flos-maris. Jordau & Starks. Enoshima, Y-shaped teeth. Iso flos-maris, called Nami-no-hana, orflower of the surf, is
Fishes . Fig. 343 —Blue Smelt or Fez del Rey, Atherinopsis californiensis Girard. San Diego. in the sea along the California coast, where they are knownfamiliarly as blue smelt or Peixe Re. The most impor-tant of these and the largest member of the family, reachinga length of eighteen inches, is Atherinopsis californiensis, animportant food-fish throughout California, everywhere wronglyknown as smelt. Atherinops affinis is much like it, but has. Fig. 343.—Flower of the surf. Iso flos-maris. Jordau & Starks. Enoshima, Y-shaped teeth. Iso flos-maris, called Nami-no-hana, orflower of the surf, is a shining little fish with belly sharp likethat of a herring. It lives in the surf on the coast of nigrans of Australia (family Melanotccniida;) hasthe lateral band jet-black, as has also Melaniris balsanns of therivers of southern Mexico. Atherinosoma vorax of Australia hasstrong teeth like those of a barracuda. Fossil species of Atherina occur in the Italian Eocene, thebest known being Atherina macroccpliala. Another species,Rhamphognathits paralepoides, allied to Menidia, occurs in theEocene of Monte Bolca. 436 Percesoces and Rhegnopteri The Mullets: Mugilidae.—The mullets {Mugilida) are moreclumsy in form than the silversides, robust, with broad headsand stouter fin-spines. The ventral fins are abdominal butwell forward, the pelvis barely touching the clavicle, a con-dition to be defined as subabdominal. T
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