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 . genera and 50 species. Fishes usually of smallsize, found in most warm seas, many of them valued as following are the only genera common in America: a. Dorsal and anal fins very high in front, the anterior lobe falcate; Peprilus, 328 aa. Dorsal and anal fins only moderately elevated in front, the anterior lobe scarcely Side of back without conspicuous series of pores abovs lateral line; Palom
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 . genera and 50 species. Fishes usually of smallsize, found in most warm seas, many of them valued as following are the only genera common in America: a. Dorsal and anal fins very high in front, the anterior lobe falcate; Peprilus, 328 aa. Dorsal and anal fins only moderately elevated in front, the anterior lobe scarcely Side of back without conspicuous series of pores abovs lateral line; Palomeia, 329 bb. Side of back with a conspicuous series of large, wide-set pores above lateral line; Poronoiiis, 330 GENUS PEPRILUS CUyiERThe Butter-fishes Body ovate or suborbicular, strongly compressed, tapering intoa slender caudal peduncle, which has no keel or shield; head short,compressed, the profile obtuse; mouth small, terminal, the jawssubequal; gill-membranes separate, free from the isthmus; usually 1or more procumbent spines in front of dorsal and anal, each witha free point both anteriorly and posteriorly; pectoral long and narrow;caudal widely forked. 328 Harvest-fish. Harvest-fish Pepriliis parn (Linnaeus) This delicious little fish has been found from Cape Cod to Brazil,but it is not abundant anywhere except about the mouth of Chesa-peake Bay. At Norfolk, where it is called whiting, it is a fish of con-siderable commercial importance, and it is one of the most commonpan-fishes one sees hawked about the streets of Baltimore, Washing-ton and other middle Atlantic cities. It reaches a length of 6 interesting fact in the life history of the fish is its habit ofswimming beneath the Portuguese man-of-war. The genus Palometa is distinguished from Pepriliis only by thelower fins. The 3 known species are each of rare occurrence. Thefirst, P. palometa, reaches a length of 3 inches and occurs in thePacific off Columbia. Another species, P. media, is known onlyfrom M
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