. 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 GREENLINGS Family LXVIII. Hexagrammidcz Body elongate, covered with small ctenoid or cycloid scales; head conical, scaly, the cranium without spinous ridges above; preopercle more or less armed, sometimes with entire edges; third suborbital developed as a bony stay articulating with the preopercle; mouth large, with acute teeth in jaws, and usually on vomer and palatines; nostril sin
. 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 GREENLINGS Family LXVIII. Hexagrammidcz Body elongate, covered with small ctenoid or cycloid scales; head conical, scaly, the cranium without spinous ridges above; preopercle more or less armed, sometimes with entire edges; third suborbital developed as a bony stay articulating with the preopercle; mouth large, with acute teeth in jaws, and usually on vomer and palatines; nostril single on each side, the posterior opening reduced to a minute pore; pseudobranchise well developed; dorsal fin continuous or divided, the anterior half of many slender spines; anal fin long, with or without spines; lateral line present, sometimes several series of pores developed. Carnivorous fishes, mostly of large size, living in kelp and about rocks in the North Pacific; some of them highly valued as food. Of the 5 genera found in American waters, only 3 contain food-fishes of any The most interesting species of the family is the Atka mack- erel, or Atka-fish, Pleurogrammus monopteiyghis. This interesting fish is the most important species of the family. It occurs in the North Pacific, chiefly among the Aleu- tian Islands. It is not common about Unalaska or the Pribilofs, but about Atka and Attn it is abundant. It is somewhat erratic 499. 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, joint author. Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page
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