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 . ViiLLOW-TAIL, Ocyurus chry^ Rhomboplites line and behind dorsal fin; above this a pearly purplish area; below ita flesh-coloured or rosy area or band 2 scales broad, then a successionof about 16 narrow streaks alternately flesh-coloured and yellow,growing fainter progressively below; edges of scales yellow, theircentres reddish; iris fiery red; lower parts of head fiesh-colour, withsome yellow spots; maxillary m
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 . ViiLLOW-TAIL, Ocyurus chry^ Rhomboplites line and behind dorsal fin; above this a pearly purplish area; below ita flesh-coloured or rosy area or band 2 scales broad, then a successionof about 16 narrow streaks alternately flesh-coloured and yellow,growing fainter progressively below; edges of scales yellow, theircentres reddish; iris fiery red; lower parts of head fiesh-colour, withsome yellow spots; maxillary mostly yellow; caudal deep yellow, itsedge reddish; dorsal chiefly yellow; anal faintly yellow. GENUS RHOMBOPLITES GILL This genus differs from Littiatius chiefly in cranial characters andin the extension of the villiform teeth over the pterygoid and hyoidbones. The form of the patch of vomerine teeth is also somewhatpeculiar. The genus contains but a single species, R. aiirorubens, thecagon de lo alto of our Spanish fishermen. It is found from RioJaneiro northward through the West Indies to the Carolina being probably most abundant about Cuba and on the Snapper Banksoff the west coast of Florida. It is, however, nowhere very common,but is a good food-fish. Colour in life, vermilion above, paler below,faint brown lines running obliquely downward and forward, followingthe rows of scales; side with narrow sinuous streaks of goldenyellow, some of them longitudinal, others oblique; dorsal rosy, its 417 Apsilus margin chiefly orange; anal pale at base, rosy at extremity; pectoralyellowish; ventrals rosy; caudal and iris vermilion; inside of mouthdusky. GENUS APSILUS CUFIER &- VALENCIENNES This very distinct genus has the cranial characters of Rliombo-plites, with the scaleless fins, peculiar squamation, and dentition ofAprion. There are no teeth on the pterygoids, tongue, or hyoid dorsal fin is short. In our waters there is but the single species, A. dentatus, thear
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