. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . It does notform in large schools as in the Pensacola region, and therefore is not takenin such large quantities by seine fishermen. Smacks from Mobile and Pensacola sometimes go to Tami)a Bay forthem. I have been told that Pompano are caught at Key West in con- :02 AMERICAN FISHES. siderable quantities by hook and line, and I have known of a few beingtaken in that manner at Pensacola. It feeds entirely upon small shell-fish, which are crushed between
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . It does notform in large schools as in the Pensacola region, and therefore is not takenin such large quantities by seine fishermen. Smacks from Mobile and Pensacola sometimes go to Tami)a Bay forthem. I have been told that Pompano are caught at Key West in con- :02 AMERICAN FISHES. siderable quantities by hook and line, and I have known of a few beingtaken in that manner at Pensacola. It feeds entirely upon small shell-fish, which are crushed between the bones of its pharyngeal arch. The Round Pompano, T. rho7Jiboides, has the height of the body con-tained two to two and one-third times in the total length; the length ofthe head five to five and one-fourth times; one of the caudal lobes threeand a-half to four times. In the second dorsal are from eighteen totwenty-one rays, in the second anal from sixteen to nineteen, while in theCarolina Pompano there are twenty-one to twenty-two. In the south it is sometimes called the Shore Pompano, and is knownin the Bermudas by the name
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