328 The Bass and their Relatives 
Serranus cabrilla is the Cabrilla of the Mediterranean, a 
well-known and excellent food-fish, the original type of the 
family of Serranide. Serranellus scriba is the serran, a very 
pretty shore-fish of southern Europe, longer known than any 
other of the tribe. On the coast of southern California are 
also species called Cabrillas, fine, large, food-fish, bass-like in 
form, Paralabrax clathratus, and other less common species. 
The Cabrillas and their relatives are almost all American, a 
few straying across to Europe. One of the most important 
in the number is the black sea-bass, or black will, of our Atlantic 
Fic. 263.—Hypoplectrus unicolor nigricans (Poey). Tortugas, Fla. 
coast, Centropristes striatus. This is a common food- and 
game-fish, dusky in color, gamy, and of fine flesh. The squirrel- 
fishes (Dtplectrum) and the many serranos (Prionodes) of the 
tropics, small bright-colored fishes of the rocks and reefs, must 
be passed-with a word, as also the small Paracentropristis of 
the Mediterranean and the fine red creole-fish of the West 
Indies, Paranthias furcifer. In one species, Anyperodon leuco- 
grammicus of Polynesia, there are no teeth on the palatines. 
The barber-fish (Anthtas anthias) of southern Europe, bright 
red and with the lateral line running very high, is the type of 
a numerous group found at the lowest fishing level in all warm 
seas. All the species of this group are bright red, very hand- 
