Common Snook

Centropomus undecimalis

Identifier: favoritefishfish00hens (find matches)Title: Favorite fish and fishingYear: 1908 (1900s)Authors: Henshall, James A. (James Alexander), 1836-1925Subjects: FishingPublisher: New York, The Outing publishing companyContributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr LibraryDigitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr LibraryView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:such jumbos as barracuda, tarpon,jewfish, sharks and sawfish.Florida Some of these were taken with rod and Grains y^^^^ ^^^ Other means were resorted to for the largest ones. Pent was an expert Inthe use of the grains, a two-prongedspear much employed in Florida. It hasa long and strong line attached to the spear,with a handle for throwing which becomesdetached when a fish Is struck. StandingIn the bow of the dory, which I would pad-dle cautiously up to the fringe of bushesalong the shore. Pent would hurl the grainstwenty, thirty or even forty feet, and sel-dom failed to plant the barbs firmly In theback of a huge fish as It lay sunning Itselfunder the mangroves—then there wassomething doing for ten or fifteen minutes.Some Big Fish The largest barracuda we captured meas-ured six and one-half feet, the largest tar-pon seven and one-quarter, an Immense saw-fish nineteen, and a man-eating shark fifteenfeet. But the liveliest tussle we had waswith a devil-fish of moderate dimensions,164Text Appearing After Image:Florida Fish and Fishing eight feet across the pectoral fins—I haveseen them of twenty. Following the leadof Victor Hugo, the octopus is often called devil-fish, but the name rightly belongsto this fish, the largest of the rays (Mantahirostris). The floundering and struggling of one Strenuousof these aquatic giants, in shallow water, ^^ ^^^was something to be remembered, whilethe erratic pitching and lunging of the doryas it followed the lead of the finny motorwas, to say the least, exciting. These largefishes were towed ashore, killed outrightand dissected, in order to ascertain some-thing in relation to their diet and time ofspawning. One day we saw a porpoise in very shal- Porpoise , -^ , . . , , 1 Calves low water playmg with her two calves,which were about three feet long. Thewater scarcely covered them. Being some-what curious as to the result, I took therifle and sent a bullet ricocheting across thewater just behind her. In great alarm shegathered a calf under each flipper, aNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

Centropomus undecimalis

Centropomus undecimalis

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Summary[edit] Description: English: Centropomus undecimalis, Laguna Madre y Delta del Rió Bravo, Mexico. Date: 23 May 2014, 00:06:21. Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/695981. Author: jose_colorado-dapa. : This image was originally posted to iNaturalist by jose_colorado-dapa at https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/873451. It was reviewed on 6 July 2021 by INaturalistReviewBot and found to be published under the terms of the Cc-by-sa-4.0 license.

Summary[edit] Description: en:Common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) in an en:aquarium at en:Epcot Living Seas exhibit. Photo by Eileen McVey. Centropomus undecimalis.jpg. Source: This file is lacking source information. Please edit this file's description and provide a source. Author: This file is lacking author information.

Summary[edit] Description: English: image from book given in "Source". Date: published 1908. Source: "Favorite Fish and Fishing" (1908) by James Alexander Henshall. Author: see captions.

Summary[edit] Description: English: Jeff Berardelli with a snook he caught in Flamingo, FL. Date: 2008. Source: Own work. Author: Jeffweather.

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Tankah Tres, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Histoire naturelle des poissons /.Paris :Chez F. G. Levrault,1828-1849..biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7111264