The Salmon Fishery of Penobscot Bay and River in 1895-96 by Hugh McCormick Smith
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[Footnote 4: The parts referred to in the key may be defined as follows: Anal fin, the single fin on the median line of the body, between the vent and the tail; gillrakers, bony protuberances on the concave side of the bones supporting the gills; branchiostegals, small bones supporting the lower margin of the gill cover; pyloric coeca, worm-like appendages of the lower end of the stomach; vomer, a bone in the front part of the roof of the mouth.] I. Anal fin elongate, with 16 rays; gillrakers 9 + 14; branchiostegals 15 to 19; pyloric coeca 140 to 180; caudal fin considerably forked; average weight about 20 pounds, maximum 100 pounds. Quinnat salmon. [Illustration: Chinook or quinnat salmon (_Oncorhynchus tschawytscha_)] II. Anal fin short, with 9 to 12 rays; gillrakers 8 + 12: branchiostegals 11; pyloric coeca less than 70. 1. Teeth on vomer little developed, those on shaft few and deciduous; scales large, about 120 in lateral series; pyloric coeca 65; caudal fin emarginate; average weight 15 pounds, maximum 40 pounds. Atlantic salmon. [Illustration: Atlantic salmon (_Salmo salar_)] |
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