. Fishes. Fishes. 594 Chromides and Pharyngognathi in the West Indies and on the west coast of Mexico. Pomacen- trus fuscus is the commonest West Indian species, and Pomacen- trus rectifrenum the most abimdant on the west coast of Mexico, the young, of an exquisite sky-blue, crowding the rock pools. Pomacentrus of many species, blue, scarlet, black, and golden, abound in Polynesia, and no rock pool in the East Indies is without several forms of this type. The type reaches its greatest development in the south seas. About forty different species of Pomacentrus and Glyphisodon occur in the coral
. Fishes. Fishes. 594 Chromides and Pharyngognathi in the West Indies and on the west coast of Mexico. Pomacen- trus fuscus is the commonest West Indian species, and Pomacen- trus rectifrenum the most abimdant on the west coast of Mexico, the young, of an exquisite sky-blue, crowding the rock pools. Pomacentrus of many species, blue, scarlet, black, and golden, abound in Polynesia, and no rock pool in the East Indies is without several forms of this type. The type reaches its greatest development in the south seas. About forty different species of Pomacentrus and Glyphisodon occur in the corals of the harbor of Apia in Samoa. Almost equally abimdant are the species of Glyphisodon. The "cockeye pilot," or jaqueta, Glyphisodon niarginatus, green with. Fig. 484.—Cockeye Pilot, Glyphisodon marginatus (Bloch). Cuba, black bands, swarms in the West Indies, occasionally ranging northward, and is equally common on the west coast of Mexico. Glyphisodon abdominalis replaces it in Hawaii, and the Asiatic Glyphisodon saxatilis is perhaps the parent of both. Glyphisodon sordidus banded with pale and with a black ocellus below the soft dorsal is very common from Hawaii to the Red Sea, and is a food-fish of some importance. Glyphisodon ccelestinns blue, with black bands, aboumds in the south Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. New York, H. Holt and Company
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