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 . go. The red rockfish,5. riiberrinms, is the largest species of all, reaching a length of2\ feet. It is abundant from San Diego to Puget Sound, and isa valued food-fish. Another important species is the yellow-backedrockfish, S. maliger, which is found from Monterey to Sitka. Itis especially abundant northward, and reaches nearly 2 feet inlength. The Spanish flag, Sebastodes riibrovinctus, banded red andwhite, is
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 . go. The red rockfish,5. riiberrinms, is the largest species of all, reaching a length of2\ feet. It is abundant from San Diego to Puget Sound, and isa valued food-fish. Another important species is the yellow-backedrockfish, S. maliger, which is found from Monterey to Sitka. Itis especially abundant northward, and reaches nearly 2 feet inlength. The Spanish flag, Sebastodes riibrovinctus, banded red andwhite, is perhaps the handsomest sea-fish in our waters. Fulldescriptions of all the species of this genus, 50 in number, may befound in our Fishes of North and Middle America. 497 THE SKIL-FISHES Family LXVII. Anoplopomid(Z This family is closely allied to Hexagrammidce, from whichit differs chiefly in the normal development of the nostrilswhich are formed as in fishes generally. There are 2 genera,Anoplopoma and Erilepis, only the first of which is of any im-portance. Its single species is A. fimbria, a very interesting fishoccurring on our Pacific Coast from Monterey Bay to It is the beshow, coal-fish, or skil of that coast, reaches alength of 18 inches, and is -jsed to some extent as food, thoughthe flesh is rather dry and tasteless. About the Straits of Fucait becomes very fat and is said to be highly appreciated. 498 THE GREENLINGS Family LXVIII. HcxagrammidcB Body elongate, covered with small ctenoid or cycloid scales;head conical, scaly, the cranium without spinous ridges above;preopercle more or less armed, sometimes with entire edges;third suborbital developed as a bony stay articulating with thepreopercle; mouth large, with acute teeth in jaws, and usuallyon vomer and palatines; nostril single on each side, the posterioropening reduced to a minute pore; pseudobranchiae well developed;dorsal fm continuous or divided, the anterior half of many slenderspines; anal fin
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