Fishes . FiG. 464 —Kingfish, Menticirrhus americanus (Linna-us). Pensaoola. drum, Aploduiotits. It is a coarse fish common on our Atlanticcoasts, a large specimen taken at St. Augustine weighing 146poimds. Other species of this family, belonging to the genusEqiics, are marked with ribbon-like stripes of black. Equeslanceolatus, known in Cuba as scrrana, is the most ornate of thesespecies, looking like a butterfly-fish or Ch^etodon. Several fossil fragments have been doubtfully referred toScicBna, Umbrina, Pogonias, and other genera. Otoliths or 572 Surmullets, Croakers, etc. ear-bones not clea
Fishes . FiG. 464 —Kingfish, Menticirrhus americanus (Linna-us). Pensaoola. drum, Aploduiotits. It is a coarse fish common on our Atlanticcoasts, a large specimen taken at St. Augustine weighing 146poimds. Other species of this family, belonging to the genusEqiics, are marked with ribbon-like stripes of black. Equeslanceolatus, known in Cuba as scrrana, is the most ornate of thesespecies, looking like a butterfly-fish or Ch^etodon. Several fossil fragments have been doubtfully referred toScicBna, Umbrina, Pogonias, and other genera. Otoliths or 572 Surmullets, Croakers, etc. ear-bones not clearly identifiable are found from the Mioceneon. These structures are more highly specialized in this groupthan in any Fig. 465—Drum, Pugonias chromis (LinniPUs). Matanzas, Fla. The Sillaginidae, etc,—Allied to the Scicemdce is the small familyof Kisugos, Sillai;i)iiJcc, of the coasts of Asia. These are slender,cylindrical fishes, silvery in color, with a general resemblanceto small Scianas. Sillago japonicus, the kisugo of Japan, is a very abimdantspecies, valued as food. Sillago sihauia ranges from Japan toAbyssinia. A number of small families, mostly Asiatic, may be appendedto the percoid series, with which they agree in general characters,especially in the normal structure of the shoulder-girdle andin the insertion of the pectoral and ventral fins. The Lactariidcs constitute a small family of the East Indies,allied to the SciccniJcc, but with three anal spines. The mouthis armed with strong teeth. Ladarins kictnriits is a food-fish ofIndia. The NandidcB are small spiny-rayed fishes of the East Indianstreams, without pseudobranchiae. Jhe Polyccntrida: are small fresh-water perch-like fishes oft
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