. 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 -- North America. GENUS UPENEUS CUYIER The Goatfishes Body oblong, compressed; mouth moderate, nearly horizontal, low, the jaws subequal; eye large, high up, posterior; opercle short and deep, with a posterior spine; each jaw with strong, unequal teeth, in i or 2 series; no teeth on vomer or palatines; lips well developed; the bone which forms a hook over the maxillary less developed than in Mill/us; inter
. 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 -- North America. GENUS UPENEUS CUYIER The Goatfishes Body oblong, compressed; mouth moderate, nearly horizontal, low, the jaws subequal; eye large, high up, posterior; opercle short and deep, with a posterior spine; each jaw with strong, unequal teeth, in i or 2 series; no teeth on vomer or palatines; lips well developed; the bone which forms a hook over the maxillary less developed than in Mill/us; interorbital space convex and narrow; opercle ending in one spine; barbels nearly as long as head; scales very large, somewhat ctenoid; lateral line continuous; head covered with large scales. Species numerous in tropical seas. About 7 species within our limits. a. Teeth in each jaw uniserial (or irregularly biserial above); all the teeth coarse and distinct; tiniculatns, 270 aa. Teeth on each jaw biserial, at least in front. b. Dorsal and caudal with dark crossbands; parwts, 271 bb. Dorsal and caudal plain yellow; martinicus, 271. Red Goatfish; Salmonete Upcncus macnlatns (Bloch) Generally common from Rio Janeiro through the West Indies to Key West. It occurs in abundance about Porto Rico where 270. 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; Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Co.
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