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Silk Snapper
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This handsome snapper is found in the West Indies and is rather common about Havana, where it is known as pargo de lo alto. It reaches a foot or more in length and is of food-value. When fresh it may always be known by the bright yellow colour of the eye, a colour which does not entirely fade in spirits.
Colour in life, bright rose, paler below; some narrow, undulating, light golden streaks following the rows of scales above the lateral line; mouth reddish within; traces of a dark lateral spot in some specimens; dorsal rosy, pale at the base, its edge yellow; caudal rosy, dusky posteriorly, the tip sometimes blood-red; pectoral pale yellow; ventrals and anal pale rosy, the latter yellowish posteriorly.