. 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. Iindiin and livirmann.âFishes of North Avierica. 28t) 47s. >OTBOPIS XKNOCKrHALIS (JorUau). II, nd I \; depth 5; eyo very large, 2J in head. D. 8; A. 7; scales 5-38-3; t,., 11 :-'. 1-1,2. Hody rather short and deep, with thick caudal pedimclo; liiK Iv viilc, not elevated. Head large, ilattish and broad above, the snout louiult il; mouth large, oblique, the jaws nearly ec
. 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. Iindiin and livirmann.âFishes of North Avierica. 28t) 47s. >OTBOPIS XKNOCKrHALIS (JorUau). II, nd I \; depth 5; eyo very large, 2J in head. D. 8; A. 7; scales 5-38-3; t,., 11 :-'. 1-1,2. Hody rather short and deep, with thick caudal pedimclo; liiK Iv viilc, not elevated. Head large, ilattish and broad above, the snout louiult il; mouth large, oblique, the jaws nearly eciual. Lateral line somo- wliiit ilottirvcd; 13 scales in front of dorsal; dorsal slightly behind veu- tnil-i. Dark above, the scales being extensively dark-edged, HO as to ;,'ivc a checkered appearance; a dark band along sides of caudal iiimIuiii 1' , which vanishes in black points along sides of body, reappear- inn on t 111' lit'ud and passing around the snout; a dusky blotch at base of catiilal: iiiiiles without red markings, the snout swollen and tubcrculate in till' spring. Length 2\ inches. Georgia to Mississippi; common in stRains (if the jiine woods, descending to brackish water; abundant in Pcnlid'i Hay. (^"/I'u, to scratch; Kcipa?///, head, from the tubcrculate male.) //,,(â;.-!» ,\n,.â,iihiili>i', Joiii'AN, Anil. Lye. Nut. Ilist. N. Y., 1S70, IVM, Etowah River, etc., Rome, Georgia. (Type, No.'20UG. Coll. Jordiin >t (iilburt.) Miiii,ilii-':iiioa}ihulu>, Jordan & Oildert, Synopsis, 192, lb8,'i. Subgenus ORCELLA, .Torduii i^' Evernmnn. 473. NOTBOPIS OKCA, Woolnmn. Head 1 i; depth 5; eye 1, small, slightly shorter than snout. JJ. 7; A. 8; 8cak',s «-l--l. Teeth, 2,4-4, 2, strongly hooked, with little or no grind- ing Kiirlacf. Body plump, little compressed, with broad back and belly; doisal outline somewhat elevated; head heivy, snout blunt, decurved; month .siiliinferior, little oblique, lower jaw slightly included ; maxillary scarce
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