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 . y the most important species of the is found on our Pacific coast from Guaymas to Peru. It is verycommon about Mazatian and Panama, and is a valued pan-fish. B. axillaris, the burro bianco, reaches a foot in length, and isknown only from Guaymas and Mazatian, where it is used as food. GENUS POMADASIS LACEPEDE The Burros This genus is composed of small shore-fishes, some of its repre-sentatives being fou
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 . y the most important species of the is found on our Pacific coast from Guaymas to Peru. It is verycommon about Mazatian and Panama, and is a valued pan-fish. B. axillaris, the burro bianco, reaches a foot in length, and isknown only from Guaymas and Mazatian, where it is used as food. GENUS POMADASIS LACEPEDE The Burros This genus is composed of small shore-fishes, some of its repre-sentatives being found in most tropical seas. Several of the speciesenter fresh waters, and others are found in brackish waters. Numer-ous species occur on the west coast of Africa and about the CapeVerde Islands, but, so far as known, none enters European waters. Thegenus is represented in our waters by about 8 species, all of thosesufficiently abundant being food-fishes of some little value. Pomadasis panameusis is a well-marked species occurring on thePacific coast of tropical America, and rather common at both Panama andMazatian. It reaches a foot or more in length, and is a good pan-fish. 432. BLACK MARGATE-FISH, Anisotremtis simnamensi.
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