Amber-jack

GENUS SERIOLA CUVIER The Amber-fishes Amber-jack Seriola dumerili (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.