. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 149 under inches) were collected by the writer in Pasquotank River and Roanoke River near Plymouth in April. The maximum length is about 4 inches. Many species of food and game fishes, in fresh and salt water, feed largely on this killi-fish, which, on account of its abundance, is one of the important "minnows".. Fig. 54. Spring Minnow. Fiindvlus diaphanus. Female. The prominent external sexual differences in this species were first pointed out by the present writer in 1892, in the paper above cited, on fish
. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 149 under inches) were collected by the writer in Pasquotank River and Roanoke River near Plymouth in April. The maximum length is about 4 inches. Many species of food and game fishes, in fresh and salt water, feed largely on this killi-fish, which, on account of its abundance, is one of the important "minnows".. Fig. 54. Spring Minnow. Fiindvlus diaphanus. Female. The prominent external sexual differences in this species were first pointed out by the present writer in 1892, in the paper above cited, on fishes of the lower Potomac River, in which the figures of the two sexes here given were originally printed. All immature specimens are marked by dark vertical bars on a pale olivaceous background; when the fish reaches a length of about 2 inches, the differential colors begin to appear. 136. FUNDULUS RATHBXJNI Jordan & Meek. RatlLbuii's Killi-fislL. Fundulua raihbuni Jordan & Meek, in Jordan, 1889a, 356, pi. xliv; Allemance Creek near Greensboro, N. C. Jordan. 18896,133,134, pi. xiv, fig. 7; Reedy Fork, South Buffalo Creek, Little Allemance Creek and other tributaries of Haw River; and Jumping Run, tributary of Yadkin River, near Salisbury. Jordan & Ever- mann, 1896, 649, pi. cv, fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smith, Hugh McCormick, 1865-1941. Raleigh, N. C. : E. M. Uzzell
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