23 .-- SERRANUS?
vel CAPRODON (Schlegel.) aut PLECTROPOMA .-- Native name TANG or TAA (It bites.) The "Perch" of the Sealers.

"Rays, D.10-24; A.
2-9; P.14; V.1-5." Eye fine crimson: pupil deep blue-black.

Tail slightly rounded.
Remarkably strong canines, from which peculiarity it has obtained its native name of TAA, as it bites severely when taken, if the fisher be not on the alert.

It is good to eat, but is not common.

Caught by the hook on 9th of April, 1841.
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