The New International Encyclopædia/Lady-fish

LADY-FISH. A shapely and very beautiful fish (Albula vulpes), representing alone the family Albulidæ, allied to the tarpons and mooneyes, and found in all tropical seas. It is one and one-half to three feet long, and is brilliantly silvery, faintly streaked, and becoming olivaceous along the back. In Bermuda and the West Indies it is called ‘bone-fish’ or ‘banana-fish,’ and sold for food, although not very good. Gilbert says that the young pass through a metamorphosis analogous to that of conger eels. For a period they are elongate, band-shaped, and have very small heads and loose, transparent tissues. Afterwards they gradually become shorter and more compact. This fish is very common in the Gulf of California.