. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 86. SERRANID^âSTEREOLEPIS. 531 Lat. 1. iJO. Length scarcely a foot. Cape Cod to Florida, abundant, ascending all streams coastwise. (Perra amcncana Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, pars iii, 1308, 1789: Labrax rufua Storer, Hist, pinh. Mass. 9: Morone americana Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 116: Perm mu- cronata Kaf. Arneip Month. Mag. ii, 205: Labrax mmericanua Holbrook, Ich. S. C. 5: labrax rufus and pallidua 6Unther,_i, 65, 67.) 1 iii-it Ayres. Jew Fishes. (Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1859, 28: ty
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 86. SERRANID^âSTEREOLEPIS. 531 Lat. 1. iJO. Length scarcely a foot. Cape Cod to Florida, abundant, ascending all streams coastwise. (Perra amcncana Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, pars iii, 1308, 1789: Labrax rufua Storer, Hist, pinh. Mass. 9: Morone americana Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 116: Perm mu- cronata Kaf. Arneip Month. Mag. ii, 205: Labrax mmericanua Holbrook, Ich. S. C. 5: labrax rufus and pallidua 6Unther,_i, 65, 67.) 1 iii-it Ayres. Jew Fishes. (Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1859, 28: type Stereolepia gigaa Ayres.) Body oblong, somewhat elevated, little compressed. Head robust, the profile steeply elevated, the forehead broad and tiattish. Edges of preopercle and interopercle serrate, becoming nearly entire with age. Crown, cheeks, and opercles scaly ; snout, preorbital, and jaws naked. Scales small, not strongly ctenoid, their surface rugose with radiating strife. Mouth large, wide, placed low; lower jaw prominent. Maxil- lary with a well-developed supplemental bone, extending to below the eye. Preorbital wide, only the anterior edge of the maxillary slipping nnder it. Teeth all villiform, in broad bands, on jaws, vomer, and pal- atines. Branchiostegals 7. Pseudobranchiae very large. Gill-rakers very strong. Dorsal fin with 11 low, stcut spines, the last spines very much shorter than the middle ones, and all depressible in a deep groove. Anal flu similar to soft dorsal, with 3 low, stout spines; caudal fin broad, nearly truncate; pectorals moderate; ventrals long. Pyloric coeca about 7. Size enormous, among the largest of Percoid fishes. ((TT£|0£«?, firm; As^t?, scale.) §34. S« gfigas Ayres.âJew-fiah; Black Sea Baaa, Brownish with large black blotches, becoming with age nearly uni- form greenish black; vertical fins in the young with a conspicuous pale edge; ventrjils black. Body and head robust; region from occi- put to dorsal carinated. Sof
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