. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. 33© The Bass and their Relatives some, and excellent as food. Hemianthias vivanus, known only from the spewings of the red snapper {Lutianus aya) at Pensacola, is one of the most brilliant species, red, with golden streaks. The genus Plesiops consists of small fishes almost black in color, with blue spots and other markings, abounding about the coral reefs. In this genus the lateral line is inter- rupted and there is some indication of affinity with the Opis- thognatlndtr. In the soapfishes (Rypticus) the supplementa Imaxillary appears
. A guide to the study of fishes. Fishes; Zoology; Fishes. 33© The Bass and their Relatives some, and excellent as food. Hemianthias vivanus, known only from the spewings of the red snapper {Lutianus aya) at Pensacola, is one of the most brilliant species, red, with golden streaks. The genus Plesiops consists of small fishes almost black in color, with blue spots and other markings, abounding about the coral reefs. In this genus the lateral line is inter- rupted and there is some indication of affinity with the Opis- thognatlndtr. In the soapfishes (Rypticus) the supplementa Imaxillary appears again, but in these forms the dorsal fin is reduced to two or three spines and there are none in the anal. Rypticus saponaceus, so called from the smooth or soapy scales, is the. Fig. 265.—Soaptish, Rypticus bisfrispinus (Mitchill). Virginia. best known of the numerous species, which all belong to trop- ical America. Grammistes, with eight dorsal spines, is a related form in Polynesia, bright yellow, with numerous black stripes. Numerous species referred to the Serranida occur in the Eocene and Miocene rocks. Some are related to EpiiiepJidns, others to Roccits and Lates. In the Tertiary lignite of Brazil is a species of Pcrcichthys, PcrcicJithys antiqitiis, with Properca bcaiunonti, which seem to be a primitive form of the bass, allied to Dicentrarchus. Prelates hehcrti of the Cretaceous, one of the earliest of the series, has the caudal rounded and is apparently allied to Lates, as is also the heavily armed Acanus regley- sianus of the Oligocene. Smerdis minutus, a small fish from the Oligocene, is also related to Lates, which genus with Roccus and Dicentrarchus must represent the most primitive of existing members of this family. Of both Smerdis and Dicentrarchus (Labrax) numerous species are recorded, mostly from the Mio- cene of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloratio
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