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 . in rather shallow water about San Francisco. Another abundantspecies is the orange rockfish, 5. pinniger, found from PugetSound to San Diego. It reaches 2 feet in length and is a com-mon market-fish; and the rasher, S. miniatus, is anotherimportant species reaching a length of 2 feet and abun-dant from San Francisco to San Diego. The red rockfish,5. riiberrinms, is the largest species of all, reaching a length o
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 . in rather shallow water about San Francisco. Another abundantspecies is the orange rockfish, 5. pinniger, found from PugetSound to San Diego. It reaches 2 feet in length and is a com-mon market-fish; and the rasher, S. miniatus, is anotherimportant species reaching a length of 2 feet and abun-dant from San Francisco to San Diego. The red rockfish,5. riiberrinms, is the largest species of all, reaching a length of2\ feet. It is abundant from San Diego to Puget Sound, and isa valued food-fish. Another important species is the yellow-backedrockfish, S. maliger, which is found from Monterey to Sitka. Itis especially abundant northward, and reaches nearly 2 feet inlength. The Spanish flag, Sebastodes riibrovinctus, banded red andwhite, is perhaps the handsomest sea-fish in our waters. Fulldescriptions of all the species of this genus, 50 in number, may befound in our Fishes of North and Middle America. 497 THE SKIL-FISHES Family LXVII. Anoplopomid(Z This family is closely allied to Hexagra
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