Fishes . re distorted. The fins, filamentous in the young, growshorter with age, as in Vomer and Alectis. The skeleton in thesefishes is essentially like that of Carangiis, the only differencelying in the compression and distortion of the bones. Cliloro-sconibrus contains the casabes, or bumpers, thin, dry, com-pressed fish, of little value as food, the bony armature of thetail being wholly lost. To the genus Trachinotns belong the pampanos, broad-bodied, silvery fishes, toothless when adult, the bodies coveredwith small scales and with no bony plates. The true pampano, Trachinotns carolinus,
Fishes . re distorted. The fins, filamentous in the young, growshorter with age, as in Vomer and Alectis. The skeleton in thesefishes is essentially like that of Carangiis, the only differencelying in the compression and distortion of the bones. Cliloro-sconibrus contains the casabes, or bumpers, thin, dry, com-pressed fish, of little value as food, the bony armature of thetail being wholly lost. To the genus Trachinotns belong the pampanos, broad-bodied, silvery fishes, toothless when adult, the bodies coveredwith small scales and with no bony plates. The true pampano, Trachinotns carolinus, h one of the 492 Cavallas and Pampanos finest ji all food-fishes, ranking with the Spanish mackerel andto be cooked in the same way, only by broiling. The flesh iswhite, firm, and flaky, with a moderate amount of delicate has no especial interest to the angler and it is not abundantenough to be of great commercial importance, yet few fishbring or deserve to bring higher prices in the markets of the. Fig. 386.—The Pampano, Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus). Woods Hole. epicures. The species is most common along our Gulf coast,ranging northward along the Carolinas as far as Cape Cod. Pampano in Spanish means the leaf of the grape, from thebroad body of the fish. The spelling pompano should there-fore be discouraged. The other pampanos, of which there are several in tropicalAmerica and Asia, are little esteemed, the flesh being dry andrelatively flavorless. Trachinotus palometa, the gafftopsail pam-pano, has very high fins and its sides have four black bandslike the marks of a grill. The rotmd pampano, Trachinotusfalcatus, is common southward, as is also the great pampano,Trachinotus goodei, which reaches a length of three feet. Trach-inotus ovatus, a large deep-bodied pampano, is common inPolynesia and the East Indies. No pampanos are found inEurope, but a related genus, Lichia, contains species which muchresemble them, but in which the body is more elongate andthe mouth
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