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 . ary bone perfectly distinct;... .y4/)C)Wo//5, 342hh. Supplemental maxillary bone rudimentary or Lower pharyngeals narrow, the teeth usually sharp, not coni-cal; Lepomis, 344 //. Lower pharyngeal bones broad and concave, especially in the adult; teeth more or less blunt or paved;. .Enpomotis, 350 cc. Body comparatively elongate, the depth in the adult about ^ the length; dorsal fm low, deeply emarginat
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 . ary bone perfectly distinct;... .y4/)C)Wo//5, 342hh. Supplemental maxillary bone rudimentary or Lower pharyngeals narrow, the teeth usually sharp, not coni-cal; Lepomis, 344 //. Lower pharyngeal bones broad and concave, especially in the adult; teeth more or less blunt or paved;. .Enpomotis, 350 cc. Body comparatively elongate, the depth in the adult about ^ the length; dorsal fm low, deeply emarginate; Micropteriis, 355 GENUS POMOXIS RAFINESOUECrappie and Calico Bass Body rather short and greatly compressed; snout projecting;mouth large, oblique; maxillary broad, with a well-developed sup-plemental bone; gillrakers long and slender; opercle emarginate;preopercle and preorbital finely serrate; scales large, feebly ctenoid;fins large, the anal larger than dorsal; caudal emarginate; bran-chiostegals 7; lateral line complete. a. Dorsal spines 6, rarely 5; anal fin plain; annularis, 334 aa. Dorsal spines 7, rarely 8; anal fin strongly reticulated; sparoides, 335 333 The Crappie. Crappie Pomoxis annularis Rafinesque The crappie is found from Vermont and New York west-ward through the Great Lakes region and Mississippi Valley to theDakotas and south to Texas. It is therefore a fish of wide distri-bution and has, in consequence, received many vernacular is called bachelor in the Ohio Valley, campbellite, croppie, andnew-light in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky; tin-mouth or paper-mouth in northern Indiana and Illinois, and sac-a-Iait, and chin-quapin perch in the lower Mississippi and Texas. In other placesit is known as bridge perch, goggle-eye, speckled perch, shad, andJohn Demon, the last name being heard in northeastern crappie and the calico bass are confounded by most anglers andfishermen, and many of the vernacular names are, in consequence,interchangea
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