. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 237 jaws, vomer, and palatines; opercular margin with 2 flat points covered with skin; preopercular margin entire; gill-rakers long and toothed; scales large; dorsal spines 10, the middle spines rather long; anal fin smaller than dorsal, the rays longer; caudal and pectorals rounded. A single small species. (Meso- gonistius, middle-angled dorsal.) 205. MESOGONISTIUS OH^TODON (Baird). Black-banded Sun-fisli. Pomotis ckcelodon Baird, Ninth Smithsonian Report, 324. 1854; Cedar Swamp Creek, N. J. Mesogordatiua chatodon, .Tord
. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 237 jaws, vomer, and palatines; opercular margin with 2 flat points covered with skin; preopercular margin entire; gill-rakers long and toothed; scales large; dorsal spines 10, the middle spines rather long; anal fin smaller than dorsal, the rays longer; caudal and pectorals rounded. A single small species. (Meso- gonistius, middle-angled dorsal.) 205. MESOGONISTIUS OH^TODON (Baird). Black-banded Sun-fisli. Pomotis ckcelodon Baird, Ninth Smithsonian Report, 324. 1854; Cedar Swamp Creek, N. J. Mesogordatiua chatodon, .Tordan & Evermann, 1896, 995, pi. clviii, fig. Fig. 104. Black-banded Sun-fish. Mesogordstvus chcetodon. Diagnosis.—Body rather short, much compressed, depth contained to 2 times in total length; head .33 total length; eye large, .33 length of head; mouth small; gill-rakers short, 10 or 11 on lower arm of first arch; lateral line unbroken; scales in lateral series about 28, in transverse series 14; fins large; dorsal rays x,10; anal rays iii,12. Color (of specimens from Wilimngton): body dirty white or pale straw color, often with silvery purplish reflections, marked by 6 to 8 black vertical bars; the first of these, through the eye, is the narrowest, most intense, and most sharply defined, the part below the eye being jet black and usually the most conspicuous part of the fish; second bar anterior to pectorals, represented on opercle by a black spot; third bar extends on spinous dorsal, forming a bluish black blotch on first three interradial membranes and a similar central stripe on ventrals; fourth bar at front of soft dorsal; fifth bar under posterior edge of soft dorsal, last bar at base of caudal;' fourth spinous dorsal membrane with white pigment, sometimes orange in male; soft dorsal with about 5 transverse rows of dark brown spots on rays; caudal similarly marked; anal with dark edge and about 4 longitudinal rows of dark brown spots; anal in some specimens
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