. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 111. OOBIESOCIDiE—GOniESOX. 749 1116. G. rcticulntiis (Grd.) J. & G. lii^ilit olive, everywhere reticuliited with brownisli onm^jje; middh' of upper lip black; a lij^ht bar between eyes and across cheeks; vertical liiis dusky; caudal with two faint brownish bars near its base. Head iit'iuly as broad as lon^^; mouth wide, its wi:A:.: .V -;i'-i-:^^if- lli*. C struiiiosuf* C(»i»e. ; i^.; a: ,.j;i",,:-,/, .,.,.;, .,'.'«'^-V' Bluish plumbeous, lins blackish. Ilead extremely wide, its width 2^ ill total leng
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 111. OOBIESOCIDiE—GOniESOX. 749 1116. G. rcticulntiis (Grd.) J. & G. lii^ilit olive, everywhere reticuliited with brownisli onm^jje; middh' of upper lip black; a lij^ht bar between eyes and across cheeks; vertical liiis dusky; caudal with two faint brownish bars near its base. Head iit'iuly as broad as lon^^; mouth wide, its wi:A:.: .V -;i'-i-:^^if- lli*. C struiiiosuf* C(»i»e. ; i^.; a: ,.j;i",,:-,/, .,.,.;, .,'.'«'^-V' Bluish plumbeous, lins blackish. Ilead extremely wide, its width 2^ ill total length; this width partly j)roduced by a large Heshy mass ex- ii'iuling from end of maxillary to end of interopercle; eye small; profile of head descending abruptly from posterior line of orbits. Superior dental series 12 on each side, externally, but the three median teeth conceal some series of whi(di the secoiul three external teeth are a continuation; inferior teeth, 11 on each side; four median incisors hor- izontal and subequal; no marked canine.' D. 11; A. 10; 0. 10; P. 21. {€<)])€.) Hilton Ilead, South Carolina. (Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1870, 121.) H). hicisors of lower jaw tricuspid. * ,'-,• 1118. O. rhcssodon Rosa Smith, .v;'.;....^; /, :,i::,< —v ,;. .,i.;n,- ..j2«::;'' Din-.; olivaceous, usually with tliree broad yellowish cross-bands above; the first across inter orbital space and cheeks, the second, very wide, across back and front of dorsal fin, the third below mitldlo of dorsal; some or all of these sometimes wanting. 7'^orm much as in (/. reticulatus; distance from vent to caudal 2f in length of body; iiiaxillary extending to below eye; incisors of lower javv tricuspid, not much declined, about 8 in number; upper teeth essentially as in 0. rctkiiJdttis. Dorsal a little longer than anal, coterminous with it. Head 3i: depth 0^. D. 11; A. 10. L. 2^ inches. San Diego to the Gulf of California; locally abundant. (Rosu Smith, Proc. U. 8
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