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 . JEWFISH, Pro;nicrops itaiara. GROUPER, Myclcropcrca bonan Mycteroperca blue shadings, its edge white; nnal deep indigo blue, olive at base, itsedge white; pectoral olive, dusky toward the tip; ventrals blackish,the tlrst ray tipped with white. M. interstitialis is known only from the coasts of Cuba. It israther common in the Havana market. It reaches a foot in length andis a good food-fish. M. dimidiata i
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 . JEWFISH, Pro;nicrops itaiara. GROUPER, Myclcropcrca bonan Mycteroperca blue shadings, its edge white; nnal deep indigo blue, olive at base, itsedge white; pectoral olive, dusky toward the tip; ventrals blackish,the tlrst ray tipped with white. M. interstitialis is known only from the coasts of Cuba. It israther common in the Havana market. It reaches a foot in length andis 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 fromMazatlan to Peru. It is fairly abundant and reaches 2 feet in length. M. rubra is of rather wide distribution. It occurs among theWest 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 israt
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