..The fishes of Illinois . ard as a thin and flexibleosseo-membranous flap, which is all or nearly all black, the longitudinalbone-striae being visible through its ensheathing epidermis. (Fig. 62.) g. Gill-rakers short and weak, their length not over £ eye; no black spot at base of last dorsal rays; olive with blue and orange spots and wavy vertical streaks of emerald; cheeks with wavy lines of emerald megalotis. gg. Gill-rakers rather long and slender, their length nearly J of eye; a black blotchat base of last dorsal rays; life-color olive, with purplish luster. .pallidus. LEPOMIS CYANELLUS
..The fishes of Illinois . ard as a thin and flexibleosseo-membranous flap, which is all or nearly all black, the longitudinalbone-striae being visible through its ensheathing epidermis. (Fig. 62.) g. Gill-rakers short and weak, their length not over £ eye; no black spot at base of last dorsal rays; olive with blue and orange spots and wavy vertical streaks of emerald; cheeks with wavy lines of emerald megalotis. gg. Gill-rakers rather long and slender, their length nearly J of eye; a black blotchat base of last dorsal rays; life-color olive, with purplish luster. .pallidus. LEPOMIS CYANELLUS Rafinesqtje(blue-spotted sunfish; green sunfish) Rafmesque, 1819, Jour, de Physique, 120. J. & G., 473; M. V., 117; B., I, 21 (Apomotis); J. & E., I, 996; X., 37 (Tellpomis cyanellus and T. microps); J., 45 (Apomotis); F. F., I. 3, 47 (Apomotis)- F , 69; L., 25 (Apomotis); R., 27-32. Length 4 to 7 inches; body elongate, robust, becoming somewhatshorter and deeper with age; dorsal outline rcither more curved than. 1? InA ?& WW o LEPOMIS—SUNFISHES 249 ventral; depth 2 .1 to 2 . S in length, usually about Color olivaceous,taking on a yellowish or coppery tinge below; each scale with a spot ofemerald-green, the spots forming more or less distinct rows, most evidenton the caudal peduncle; sides marked with seven or eight vertical bars ofdusky, gradually fading backward; two spots of emerald-green in front ofeye and one just behind it; three or four wavy lines of same color oncheek below eye, two or three of them continued backward across opercle;iris red; bony portion of gill-flap very dark green to blackish, with poste-rior edging of darker; membranous margin of flap coppery to purplish,the color strongest on lower posterior portion; fins all dusky, pectoralsleast so; soft dorsal and anal with large black blotch at base of last rays,the former with a very narrow outer margin of whitish; anal very darkat base, paler outward, and edged below with rich yellow or orange;ventral
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