. 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. Fishes -- North America. Mycteroperca blue shadings, its edge white; anal deep indigo blue, olive at base, its edge white; pectoral olive, dusky toward the tip; ventrals blackish, the first ray tipped with white. M. interstitialis is known only from the coasts of Cuba. It is rather common in the Havana market. It reaches a foot in length and is a good food-fish. M. dimidiata is a rare species known only from Hava
. 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. Fishes -- North America. Mycteroperca blue shadings, its edge white; anal deep indigo blue, olive at base, its edge white; pectoral olive, dusky toward the tip; ventrals blackish, the first ray tipped with white. M. interstitialis is known only from the coasts of Cuba. It is rather common in the Havana market. It reaches a foot in length and is a good food-fish. M. dimidiata is a rare species known only from Havana. Speci- mens only a few inches long have been seen. M. xenarcha occurs about rocky islands on the Pacific coast from Mazatlan to Peru. It is fairly abundant and reaches 2 feet in length. M. ntbra is of rather wide distribution. It occurs among the West Indies and south to Brazil, in the eastern Atlantic about islands, and in the Mediterranean. M. pardalis, the cabrilla piritita, is known from the Gulf of Cali- fornia and Mazatlan, where it is rather common about rocky islands; it reaches 2 feet in length. M. olfax, the yellow grouper, reaches 2 to 3 feet in length, and is rather common about Panama and the Galapagos Islands. M. ruberrima is a rare species known only from Abingdon Island of the Galapagos group. M. rosacea is a beautifully coloured but very rare species known only from Angel Island, Gulf of California, and Mazatlan. Colour in life, nearly everywhere brick-red; tips of pectorals M. falcata, the bacalao or abadejo, is found in the West Indies and north to Bermuda. It grows to 2 or 3 feet in length and is an im- portant food-fish at Havana. Colour in life, brown above, sides gray- ish brown, faintly covered with darker spots, which disappear in spirits; 393. 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
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