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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 (1902) (14782810145)

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Title: 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

Year: 1902 (1900s)

Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932

Subjects: Fishes

Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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- < o ^ O tniij Q. 5 X o Gray Snapper ; Mangrove Snapper Tres Marias, and Revillagigedo islands. Nothing distinctive is knownof its habits. Colour, golden brown, with s sky-blue longitudinalstripes, each broadly margined with darker blue; a faint median bluestreak from occiput to front of dorsal. Lutiamis jordani is known only from Panama, where it is some-times taken in considerable numbers, it is a strongly marked species,quite unlike any other, reaching a length of less than 2 feet. It maybe readily distinguished from any other species by the diamond-shaped patch of vomerine teeth. Colour, dark purplish olive, scaleswith silvery spots. Liitianiis novemfasciatiis is known from the Pacific coast of tropi-cal America, from Guaymas and Cape San Lucas to Panama; gener-ally common, and a large and valued food-fish, reaching a weight of20 pounds. It is called pargo prieto. Colour, back and sides very dark olive-brown, the back with a slatytinge, the sides often with some faint purplish

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