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Sides yellowish-silvery with 6 or 7 broad dark vertical bars 
between head and tail. Dorsal and caudal dusky towards their 
borders, and spinous dorsal quite dark. Pectoral colorless. Ven- 
tral and anal yellow. Beesley’s Point. ( Baird. ) 
As our only representative of the croakers with large pharyn- 
geals below completely united and covered with coarse blunt 
paved teeth (Afplodinotine) this fish is easily distinguished. 
As a food-fish it is rather coarse, and the flesh is of no great 
value. They reach a large size and weigh as much as 146 pounds. 
Large examples were found at Stone Harbor. 
Pogonias chromis Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 811.—Bean, 
Ball. U>S.F.Com:, Vil a687ips-myr- 
Pogonias cromis Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 
262. —smith, Bulli U2 S4 Fy Com:, cll, 1892). ps 378. 
Pogonias fasciatus Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, p. 
332.—Abbott, 1. c. 
Family LATILIDA. 
The Blanquillos. 
Body more or less elongate, fusiform or compressed. Head 
subconical, anterior profile usually convex. Mouth rather ter- 
minal, little oblique. Teeth rather strong. No teeth on vomer 
or palatines. Premanxillary usually with a blunt posterior canine, 
somewhat as in Labride. Premaxillaries protractile. Maxillary 
without supplemental bone, not slipping under edge of preorbital. 
Suborbital without bony stay. Bones not greatly developed. 
Cranial bones not cavernous. Opercular bones mostly unarmed. 
Vertebree in normal or slightly increased number (24 to 30). 
Gill-membranes separate, or more or less united, often adherent 
to isthmus. Gills 4, a long slit behind fourth. Pseudobranchiz 
well developed. Lower pharyngeals separate. Pyloric cceca few 
or none. Scales small, ctenoid. Lateral line present, complete, 
more or less concurrent with back. Dorsal fin long and low, 
usually continuous, spinous portion always much less developed 
than soft portion, but never obsolete. Anal fin very long, its 
spines feeble and few. Caudal fin forked, tail deeply diphycercal. 
