. The fishes of North and Middle America [microform] : a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Fishes; Fishes; Poissons; Poissons. |):| i. i J,ii §fM 28« Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 464. NOTROPIS ltlTBKI('R0rKi:8 (Copo). (ItRI) Fallfibii.) Head 4; depth 4^; eye 3i. D. 8; A. 9; scales 7-38-3; teeth 2, 4-^1, 2, the edges of the grinding surface often serrate. Body moderately don- gate, somewhat compressed. Head comparatively long and rather pointed. Mouth rather large, ohlique, the jaws
. The fishes of North and Middle America [microform] : a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Fishes; Fishes; Poissons; Poissons. |):| i. i J,ii §fM 28« Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 464. NOTROPIS ltlTBKI('R0rKi:8 (Copo). (ItRI) Fallfibii.) Head 4; depth 4^; eye 3i. D. 8; A. 9; scales 7-38-3; teeth 2, 4-^1, 2, the edges of the grinding surface often serrate. Body moderately don- gate, somewhat compressed. Head comparatively long and rather pointed. Mouth rather large, ohlique, the jaws about e(|UHl. Eye large, as long as snout, premaxillary rather helow pupil; maxillary reaching beyond front of orbit. Lateral lino somewhat decurved; 19 scales in front of dorsal. Dorsal inserted somewhat behind ventrals. Females olivacooua, sometimes Unshed with red. Mules steel blue, a dark lateral l)iind of coaly puuctulations, which is usually distinct on the anterior part of the body, and passes through the eye around the snout; fins all rich, clear red, the dorsal crimson, the caudal pink, the lower fins scarlet; head pale red, the lower jaw ilushed as if bloody; eyes bluish or flushed with red; a lustrous afcreak along sides; silvery helow. In high coloration the whole body is more or less red. Males witii the head and antedursal region dusted Avith fine white tubercles. Length 4 inches. Head waters of the Tennessee and Savannah rivers; a surpassingly beautiful little linh, abounding in rock pools at the foot of the cascades, {ruber, red; croceus, saffron color.) UijhiipHK riihricrocenH, 7oPE, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philn., 1868,231, pi. 28, flg. 4, Tumbling Creek, tributary North Fork Holston River. (Coll. Copo.) Jljldrojilihr nihricnxeiin, .lonDAN it UltAlfTON, Bull. I'. S. Nat, Mus., XII, 32, 1878, Minnilus ruhricrocctw, Jordan & Gilueut, Synopsis, 189, 1883. 466. NOTROPIS CHLOROCEPHALUS (Cope). Head 4; depth .5; D. 8; A. 8; eye laige, 3 in head; scales 6-39-
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