. 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. THE LADY-FISHES Family X. Albnlidic BODY rather long, not much compressed, covered with rather small, brilliantly silvery scales; head naked; snout conic, subquad- rangular, shaped like that of a pig and overlapping the small, in- ferior, horizontal mouth; maxillary rather strong, short, with a distinct supplemental bone; premaxillaries short, not protractile; jaws, vomer, and palatines w
. 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. THE LADY-FISHES Family X. Albnlidic BODY rather long, not much compressed, covered with rather small, brilliantly silvery scales; head naked; snout conic, subquad- rangular, shaped like that of a pig and overlapping the small, in- ferior, horizontal mouth; maxillary rather strong, short, with a distinct supplemental bone; premaxillaries short, not protractile; jaws, vomer, and palatines with bands of villiform teeth; broad patches of coarse, blunt teeth on the tongue; eye large, median in head, a bony ridge above it, and almost covered with an an- nular adipose eyelid; preopercle with a broad, flat, membranaceous edge; pseudobranchioe present; gill-membranes entirely separate and free from the isthmus; a fold of skin across gill-membranes anteriorly; no gular plate; lateral line present; belly flattish; cov- ered with ordinary scales; caudal widely forked. This family contains but a single Lady-fish ; Bone-fish ; Banana-fish Albnla 1'iilpcs (Linnaeus) This beautiful and active fish is almost universally distributed on sandy coasts in all tropical seas. It ranges northward as far as San Diego and Long Island, and is generally abundant. It is a fish of very attractive appearance, usually litttle valued as food, though in some places, as at Key West, it is held in high esteem. As a game-fish it is highly appreciated by those famil- iar with it. It resembles, in this respect, the ten-pounder. 88. 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 the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931; Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Co.
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