American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . nnow, angleworm, whitegrub, grasshopper or piece of clam or fish. On account of itsusually inhabiting water with muddy bottom its flesh is apt totaste of the mud. Body shaped much like that of the rock bass; head andmouth large, maxillary reaching posterior line of eye; dorsal spineslow, the longest equal to distance from tip of snout to middle ofeye; pectoral not nearly reaching anal fin; ventrals barely reach-
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . nnow, angleworm, whitegrub, grasshopper or piece of clam or fish. On account of itsusually inhabiting water with muddy bottom its flesh is apt totaste of the mud. Body shaped much like that of the rock bass; head andmouth large, maxillary reaching posterior line of eye; dorsal spineslow, the longest equal to distance from tip of snout to middle ofeye; pectoral not nearly reaching anal fin; ventrals barely reach-ing vent. Colour, dark olive-green, or sometimes rich brick-redand brassy, clouded with darker, usually with red, blue andbrassy; a dusky spot on each scale; ventral fins mottled withdusky; a faint spot on last rays of dorsal bordered by paler; 3oblique dusky or reddish bars radiating from eye; belly yellowishor brassy. GENUS APOMOTIS RAFINESOUE This genus is very close to Lepomis, from which it differsonly in the development of the supplemental maxillary bonewhich is rudimentary or wanting in Lepomis; the mouth islarger in Apomotis, the lower pharyngeals narrow, with acute 342.
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