Definition of California pompano

1. Noun. Smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies.

Exact synonyms: Palometa, Palometa Simillima
Generic synonyms: Butterfish, Stromateid, Stromateid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Palometa

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Literary usage of California pompano

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"... valuable except at Norfolk, Va., -where it is consumed for food in large quantities, its market name being - * Whiting." The california pompano ..."

2. The Fishes of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1896)
"(california pompano.) Head 4 ; depth 2. D. Ill, 46 ; A. Ill, 40. Body ovate, blunt anteriorly, with a short, slender tail, the caudal fin widely forked. ..."

3. Preliminary Results as Contained in the Eleventh Census Bulletins by United States Census Office. 11th Census, 1890, Robert Percival Porter (1891)
"the california pompano, the rudder-fish or barrel-fish, the cutlass-fish or Florida s word-fish or saber-fish (Tex.) or silver eel (Ga.), the sword-fish. ..."

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