. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 84. CENTRARCHID^âCH^NOBRYTTUS, 467 rupted black stripes; a black opercular spot; dark mottlings on the soft dorsal, anal, and caudal. Head 2^; depth 2-2J, D. XI, 10; A. VI 10; scales about 5-39-12. Cceca 7. Vert. 14+ 18. L. 12 Indies. Verniout to Great Lake r«gion and Manitoba, south to Louisiana; very abundant west ot the Alleghanies. (Bodianm rnpestris Raf. Am. Monthly Mag. 1B17,120: Centrarchus ceneus C. & V. iii, 84: Centrarchus mneus GUnthor, i, 25G; Jorrlan, Man, Vert. od. 2, 237: Ambloplites cavi- /ro»8 Copo,
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 84. CENTRARCHID^âCH^NOBRYTTUS, 467 rupted black stripes; a black opercular spot; dark mottlings on the soft dorsal, anal, and caudal. Head 2^; depth 2-2J, D. XI, 10; A. VI 10; scales about 5-39-12. Cceca 7. Vert. 14+ 18. L. 12 Indies. Verniout to Great Lake r«gion and Manitoba, south to Louisiana; very abundant west ot the Alleghanies. (Bodianm rnpestris Raf. Am. Monthly Mag. 1B17,120: Centrarchus ceneus C. & V. iii, 84: Centrarchus mneus GUnthor, i, 25G; Jorrlan, Man, Vert. od. 2, 237: Ambloplites cavi- /ro»8 Copo, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1838,217, ia probably a young specimen of this Bpecies.*) 346.âCH/i:]Vâ¬3RVTTlJS Gill. War-mouths. (Calliuma Ag. not of Raf.) (Gill. Amer. Joum. Sci. Arts, 1864, 92: type Calliurua viclanops Grd. = Pomotia gulosus Cuv. & Val.) This genus has the general form and dentition of Ambloplites with the convex opercle, 10 dorsal and 3 anal spines of Lepomis. Preopercle entire. Branchiostegals 6. Caudal fin emarginate. Scales weakly ctenoid, (x'^^'-'^j to yawn; Bryttus, i. e. Lepomis.) a. Dorsal beginning above the opercular spot. y2§. C. anIisJius UaKsiy.âGoggle Eije. Body heavy, deep and thick, stouter and less elongate than in the next. Head deep. Mouth large, the maxillary reaching nearly to pos- terior margin of the eye; the supplemental bone strong. Scales on cheeks in 7 or 8 rows. Opercular flap broad. Eye small, 4J in head; pre- opercle and mandible with large mucous pits. Dorsal beginning directly over the opercular spot, which is above base of pectoral; spines of dor- sal very stout, the longest as long as from snout to middle of eye. Color in life dark olive-gree ^ above; sides greenish and brassy, with blotches of pale blue and bright coppery red, the red predominating; belly bright brassy yellow, profusely mottled with liright red; lower jaw chiefly yellow; iris bright red; opercular spot as large as eye, black, bordered with c
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