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 . Mycteroperca r. Gill-rakers rather few, xi-12; body without dark cross-bars. s. Scales very small, about 20-140-37; caudal not deeply lunate, eye small bowersi, 394 ss. Scales larger, about 90 to 100 in lateral line; caudal deeply lunate; eye larger calliura, 394 rr. Gill-rakers very few, short and thick, about ;c+6; body with light and dark cross-bars. /. Ground colour dark olive tigris, 394 //. Ground colour b
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 . Mycteroperca r. Gill-rakers rather few, xi-12; body without dark cross-bars. s. Scales very small, about 20-140-37; caudal not deeply lunate, eye small bowersi, 394 ss. Scales larger, about 90 to 100 in lateral line; caudal deeply lunate; eye larger calliura, 394 rr. Gill-rakers very few, short and thick, about ;c+6; body with light and dark cross-bars. /. Ground colour dark olive tigris, 394 //. Ground colour bright red camclopardalis, 395 The species of this genus are very numerous and most of themvery closely related. While all are excellent for food, the scarcity ofsome and the distance of others from a market leave but few that areof great importance as food-fishes. So many of the species are soclosely related that detailed descriptions hardly seem necessary. Thekey given above will usually be found sufficient for the identificationof any of the known Mycteroperca boulengeri is a small species known only fromMazatlan, where it is rather common in the astillero. It reaches 15inches in length, is olive-gray in color, covered everywhere withirregular oblong black markings. M. veiieiwsa, the yellow-finned grouper, rockfish, or bonaci depiedra, occurs from the Florida Keys and the Bahamas southwardamong the West Indies. It is a large, handsome fish, reaching 3 feetin length, and is reputed poisonous. In life it is a clear olive-g^een,livid blue or pearly below; upper parts everywhere with broad reticu- 391 Mycteroperca lations and curved blotches of bright, clear, light green; entire bodyand head covered with round orange-brown spots; angle of mouthorange within; iris orange; breast slightly rosy; dorsal olive-brownwith whitish blotches. M. apiia, the bonaci cardenal, is found from the Florida Keys toBrazil in deeper water than M. venenosa, from which it differs only incolou
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