Amber-fish; Coronado 



ward. It attains a length of 2 or 3 feet, but is not liighiy 

 regarded as a food-fish. It is too rare to be of much interest 

 to the angler. 



Colour, bluish above, white below; side with about 6 broad 

 black bars, these forming 3 large blotches on the dorsal and 2 

 on the anal, these bars growing f^iinter and disappearing with 

 age; an oblique dark band from the spinous dorsal to the eye, 

 the space above this olivaceous; spinous dorsal black; ventrals 

 mostly black. 



Amber-fish ; Coronado 



Scriola lalaiidi Cuvier & Valenciennes 



The amber-fish is an immense fish, reaching a length of 5 

 or 6 feet and a weight of more than 100 pounds, occurring from 

 west Florida to Brazil, and occasionally north to New Jersey. 

 In the Gulf it is rather common and is valued as food. 



Colour, dorsal fin dusky, with a light-yellow submarginal 

 band; pectoral fin dusky-yellowish; ventrals vellow and blackish; 

 anal blackish, with pale edge. 



Amber-jack 



Seriola diimcrili (Risso) 



This species, also called amber-fish and coronado, is of wide 

 distribution. It occurs both in the Mediterranean and the West 

 Indies. It is rather common about Pensacola and Key West, 

 and is a food-fish of some importance. 



Colour, grayish silvery below; a gilt band through eye to 

 caudal, and another through temporal region to front of soft 

 dorsal; fins plain; no dark cross-bands. Very close to S. lalandi, 

 but smaller, the body deeper and less compressed; mouth larger 

 than in S. dorsalis, but about as in S. lalandi. 



S. maiallaim, fasciata, rivoliana and falcata are unimportant 

 species. 



The genus Elagatis is close to Seriola and contains a single 

 species, E. bipinnulatits, a large pelagic fish, reaching a length 

 of 2^ feet. It occurs in most tropical seas and is occasionally 

 seen in the West Indies from which it sometimes strays north 



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