CHAPTER XI 
SPOTTED EELS, CRAB EATERS, SURF WHITING, MOON FISH, 
LEATHER JACKETS, TRIGGER FISH, AND MULLET 
SPOTTED EEL (Mystriophys intertinctus) 
THERE is something peculiarly snakelike about these yellow, 
black-spotted eels, which are only found washed ashore after 
storms from a certain quarter, and never, at any rate to my 
knowledge, take a baited hook, There are many of these 
spotted eels in the waters round Florida Keys, and one of them 
is known as the “ sea-serpent.”’ 
The small upper fish in the photograph is evidently a wrass 
of some kind, probably a rock-cook (Centrolabrus), but as‘no 
one catches the wrass, save by accident, I never studied 
them. 
