American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . st scarcely longer than snout, 3 to 4 in head in adult,longer in young; opercular spot smaller than eye, broadly mar-gined with bronze, the black confined to the bony part; pecto-ral short, not reaching anal, i|- in head; ventrals not reachingvent. Colour, variable, the prevailing shade green, with a strongbrassy lustre on sides, becoming nearly yellow below; each scaleusually with a sky-blue spot and more or le
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . st scarcely longer than snout, 3 to 4 in head in adult,longer in young; opercular spot smaller than eye, broadly mar-gined with bronze, the black confined to the bony part; pecto-ral short, not reaching anal, i|- in head; ventrals not reachingvent. Colour, variable, the prevailing shade green, with a strongbrassy lustre on sides, becoming nearly yellow below; each scaleusually with a sky-blue spot and more or less of gilt edging,giving an appearance of pale lateral streaks; besides these marks,dusky or obscure vertical bars are often present, and the sidesare sprinkled with dark dots; vertical fins marked with blue orgreen, the anal usually edged in front with pale orange; usuallya conspicuous black spot on posterior base of dorsal and anal 343 Common Sunfishes fins, these sometimes obsolete; cheeks with narrow blue stripes;iris red. The green sunfish can be readily told from all other speciesby the fact that the black opercular spot covers only the bonyor hard portion of the Apomotis symnietriciis is a pretty and interesting sunfish, notuncommon in the lower Mississippi Valley and Texas, where itis a common pan-fish. GENUS LEPOMIS T{AFINESQUECommon Sunfishes Body oblong or ovate, more or less compressed; mouth small,the jaws about equal; maxillary narrow, supplemental bone re-duced to a mere rudiment or wholly wanting; teeth on vomerand palatines, none on tongue; lower pharyngeals narrow, theteeth spherical or paved, all or nearly all sharp, few or none ofthem conical; gillrakers mostly short; preopercle entire; opercleending behind in a convex black flap, which becomes greatlydeveloped with age in some species; branchiostegals 6; scalesmoderate; one dorsal fin with lo spines; anal with 3; caudal finemarginate. Colour, brilliant, but evanescent. 344 Common Sunfishes A genus
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