Fishes . her but smaller tai or porgy, crimson, sprinkledwith blue spots, Pagrtis cardinalis, occurs in Japan in greatabundance, as also two species similar in character but withoutred, known as Kurodai or black tai. These are Spams latiisand Sparus berda. The gilt-head of the Mediterranean, Sparttsaurata, is very similar to these Japanese species. Sparus sarbain Australia is the tarwhine, and Spams anstralis the blackbream. The numerous species of PagcUus abound in the Medi-terranean. These are smaller in size than the species of Pagrtis,red in color and with feebler teeth. Monotaxis grattdoa
Fishes . her but smaller tai or porgy, crimson, sprinkledwith blue spots, Pagrtis cardinalis, occurs in Japan in greatabundance, as also two species similar in character but withoutred, known as Kurodai or black tai. These are Spams latiisand Sparus berda. The gilt-head of the Mediterranean, Sparttsaurata, is very similar to these Japanese species. Sparus sarbain Australia is the tarwhine, and Spams anstralis the blackbream. The numerous species of PagcUus abound in the Medi-terranean. These are smaller in size than the species of Pagrtis,red in color and with feebler teeth. Monotaxis grattdoailis,known as the mu, is a widely diffused and valuable food-fishof the Pacific islands, greenish in color, with pale closely related is also the American scup or fair maid{Stenotomiis chrysops), one of our commonest pan fishes. In (I The Bass and their Relatives 559 this genus and in Calamus the second interhaemal spine is verygreatly enlarged, its concave end formed like a quill-pen and. Fig. 450.—Calamus bajonado (Bloch & Schneider), Jolt-head Porgy. Fez de Pluma. Family Sparidce. including the posterior end of the large air-bladder. Thisarrangement presumably assists in hearing. Of the penfishes.
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