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 . t replaces southward. GENUS CAL/1MUS SIVAINSON The Porgies This genus contains some 12 species, all American, all shore-fishes, all closely related, and all excellent food-fishes. a. Scales comparatively small, 54 to s8 in lateral line. b. Body very deep, the back elevated, the depth in adult about 2 in length. c. Preorbital with reticulations of the bluish ground colour around bronze spots calamus, 438 cc. Preo
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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 . t replaces southward. GENUS CAL/1MUS SIVAINSON The Porgies This genus contains some 12 species, all American, all shore-fishes, all closely related, and all excellent food-fishes. a. Scales comparatively small, 54 to s8 in lateral line. b. Body very deep, the back elevated, the depth in adult about 2 in length. c. Preorbital with reticulations of the bluish ground colour around bronze spots calamus, 438 cc. Preorbital region, snout, cheek, and opercles brassy, crossed by horizontal wavy, non-reticulating lines of violet-blue. pr or id ens, 4 39bb. Body more elongate, the depth 2 to 2f in length . .bajouado, 439aa. Scales comparatively large, 45 to S3 in lateral line. d. Dorsal outline forming a comparatively regular arch ... .peuna, 440dd. Dorsal outline not forming a regular arch arctifrons, 440 Saucer-eye Porgy Calamus calamus (Cuvier & Valenciennes) West Indies, north to the Florida Keys. It has been recordedfrom Martinique, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Cuba, and various places in 438. JOLT-HEAD PORGY, Cal^ius ba;oii^^