. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. 348 The Bass and their Relatives silvery scales. In some species the dorsal spines and the third anal spine are very strong, and in some the second interhasmal is quill-shaped, including the end of the air-bladder, as in Calamus. Most of the species, including all the peculiar ones, are American. The smallest, Encinostomns, have the quill-shaped interhcemal. Fig. 286.—Mojarra, Xystcema cinereum (Walbaum). Key West. and the dorsal and anal spines are very weak. The commonest species is the silver jenny, or mojarra de Ley, Eucinostomus g
. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. 348 The Bass and their Relatives silvery scales. In some species the dorsal spines and the third anal spine are very strong, and in some the second interhasmal is quill-shaped, including the end of the air-bladder, as in Calamus. Most of the species, including all the peculiar ones, are American. The smallest, Encinostomns, have the quill-shaped interhcemal. Fig. 286.—Mojarra, Xystcema cinereum (Walbaum). Key West. and the dorsal and anal spines are very weak. The commonest species is the silver jenny, or mojarra de Ley, Eucinostomus gida, which ranges from Cape Cod to Rio Janeiro, in the surf along sandy shores. Equally common is Enciiiostomns cali- forniensis of the Pacific Coast of Mexico, while Eucinostomus harcugulus of the West Indies is also very abundant. Ulcsma lefroyi has but two anal spines and the interhaemal very small. It is common through the West Indies. Xystccma, with the interhasmal spear-shaped and normally formed, is found in Asia and Polynesia more abundantly than in America, although one species, Xystccma cincreiim, the broad shad, or Mojarra blanca, is common on both shores of tropical America. Xystccma gigas is found in Polynesia, A", oyena in Japan, and X. filamentosnm in Formosa and India. Xystccma massalongoi is also fossil in the Miocene of Austria. The species of Gerres have very strong dorsal and anal spines and the back much elevated. Gerres plumieri, the striped mojarra, Gerres bra- siliensis, the patao, Gerres oHsthostomus, the Irish pampano, and Gerres rhombeus are some of the numerous species fotind. 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, H. Holt
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