Fishes . Fig. 408.—Banded Sunfish, Mesogonistius chatodon (Baird). Delaware River. to Mr. Will S. Green of Colusa, California, have been greatlyreduced by the introduction of the catfish {Amciurns nebnlosus) Percoidea, or Perch-like Fishes 51 ^ into the Sacramento. The perch eats the young catfish, andits stomach is torn by their sharp pectoral spines. Another. Fig. 404—Blue-Gill, Lepomis pallidus (Mitchill). Potomac River. Species of this type is the warmouth {Chcsnobryttus gidosus)of the ponds of the South, and still more familiar rock-bass

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