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Pargo Colorado
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This species reaches the length of 2 1/2 feet, and occurs on our Pacific coast from Guaymas to Panama. It is a common food-fish on that coast, and is highly esteemed.
Colour in life, dark olivaceous above, each scale with the basal half dark olive-brown; head and lower parts of body bright red, especially bright on lower parts of head, the colour extending on the sides for a varying distance; upper jaw and maxillary reddish; upper parts of head dark olivaceous; scales on sides of head without dark spots; a much-interrupted light blue line from middle of preorbital along suborbital, rarely extending behind the orbit; cheek sometimes with bluish spots or lines; inside of mouth red; vertical fins very dark, with more or less reddish; spinous dorsal with a broad median streak of very light slaty blue; pectoral and ventrals reddish, the latter with dusky.