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 . « 4 o yg J ID ^< ;2 Red Grouper ; Cherna Americana The speckled hind or john-paw (£. dnimniond-hayi) is mostabundant on the Snapper Banks in the Gulf of Mexico, but it has been. recorded from the Bermudas and Charleston. It attains a weight of 30pounds, and is an important food-fish in the Pensacola market. It isperhaps the most beautiful in colour of all the groupers. Colour, dark umber-brown, densely
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 . « 4 o yg J ID ^< ;2 Red Grouper ; Cherna Americana The speckled hind or john-paw (£. dnimniond-hayi) is mostabundant on the Snapper Banks in the Gulf of Mexico, but it has been. recorded from the Bermudas and Charleston. It attains a weight of 30pounds, and is an important food-fish in the Pensacola market. It isperhaps the most beautiful in colour of all the groupers. Colour, dark umber-brown, densely covered with small pearly-white spots, those below smaller and nearly round, all in irregularseries; fins not dark-edged, all covered with similar spots, those ofthe paired fins chiefly on the inner surface; lower side of head flushedwith red and unspotted; caudal fin more densely spotted than thebody, the terminal spots lavender; pectoral with a subterminal orangeband. Red Grouper; Cherna Americana Epinephelus morio (Cuvier & Valenciennes) The red grouper is the most abundant and best-known species ofthe genus. It is found on our South Atlantic and Gulf coasts fromVirginia to Texas and southward to Brazil. It is an easily recogniza-ble species, separated from all others by the elevation of the seconddorsal spine. Besides the vernacular names given above, i
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