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 . raduated; caudal lunate. 450 Doydixodon This genus contains several species, chiefly on the east coast ofAsia. Only one species, Girella nigricans, is found on our species, called the green-fish, occurs on the California coast fromMonterey to Cape San Lucas and Guaymas. It reaches a foot in length,is a common and active inhabitant of rock-pools, and is a food-fish offair quality. In life it is dusky g
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 . raduated; caudal lunate. 450 Doydixodon This genus contains several species, chiefly on the east coast ofAsia. Only one species, Girella nigricans, is found on our species, called the green-fish, occurs on the California coast fromMonterey to Cape San Lucas and Guaymas. It reaches a foot in length,is a common and active inhabitant of rock-pools, and is a food-fish offair quality. In life it is dusky green, paler below; fins dusky greenish;young with a large yellowish blotch on the back on each side of dorsal. GENUS DOYDIXODON yALENCIENNES This genus is very close to Girella, from which it seems to differin having the soft dorsal and anal elevated, and only 12 or 13 dorsalspines. The single species in our waters is D. freminxillei, a veryrare species known only from the Galapagos and the coast of Peru. GENUS HERMOSILLA JENKINS &- E^ERMANN This genus is allied to Kyphosiis, from which it differs in theweaker gill-rakers, the entire preopercular margin, absence of teeth on. tongue, the larger scales, and the less complete squamation of the one species is known, H. a^itrca, which occurs at Guaymas 451 The Chopas in the Gulf of California. It reaches a foot in length and is a goodfood-fish, but not abundant enough to be of much importance. It isone of the most beautiful species of the family. Colour in life, dark steel-blue, paler below; body with about 12vertical blackish bars; a dark streak from maxillary to angle of opercle;a black opercular spot; tins mostly dark. GENUS KYPHOSUS LACEPEDE The Chopas Body elongate-ovate, regularly elliptical, moderately compressed;head short, the snout blunt; eye large; mouth small, horizontal; max-illary barely reaching eye; each jaw with a single series of rathernarrow, obtusely-lanceolate incisors, behind these a narrow band ofvill
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