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Yellow Goatfish; Salmonete Amarilla
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This species occurs from Florida southward among the West Indies, it being known from Key West, Jamaica. Cuba, Martinique, and Porto Rico, about which last island it is less common than the red goatfish. It reaches 12 inches in length and is a good food-fish.
Resembling U. maculatus in form, but with slightly larger eye, smaller scales and weaker teeth which are arranged in more than one series. Colour, pale-blue and pink or pale-red, the latter chiefly above, the blue below; a straight yellow band from eye to base of upper caudal rays; a black vertical bar at base of caudal; head with yellow streaks and reddish patches; pectorals red; ventrals, anal, and caudal reddish near base, outer part yellow; dorsals yellow, plainest near tips. These colours fade in spirits.