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Title: 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
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the bluishand orange spotted; opercular flap rather small, the lower pos-terior part always bright scarlet, a mark which at once dis-tinguishes this species, when adult, from all our other brightlycoloured sunfishes. Eupomotis gibbosiis is subject to considerable variations as isto be expected in a species of such wide distribution. Bluestripes and blue markings on the side are very prominent in ex-amples from Hicksville, Ohio, and Marion, Iowa. Examples fromWinona Lake, Indiana, have 7 or 8 faint dark bars on side andno blue stripes on cheek. Red-eared Sunfish Eupomotis heros (Baird & Girard) This sunfish is found from northern Indiana to Florida andthe Rio Grande. It is an inhabitant of lowland streams andponds, but does not appear to be common anywhere. It reachesa length of 6 or 7 inches. Nothing is definitely known as toits food and game qualities. Body robust, moderately elongate, dorsal and ventral outlinesequally curved; head rather large, the projecting snout forming 354
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The Black Basses a considerable angle above the eyes; mouth rather wide, oblique,maxillary reaching slightly part front of eye; pectoral fin reach-ing beyond middle of pupil; opercular flap smaller than eye,much as in E. gibbosiis; gillrakers short and not very stiff;pharyngeal teeth paved, less blunt than in E. gibbosus. Colour,dark, greenish above, gradually becoming brassy toward bellywhich is light brassy; opercular spot greenish black; the flapwith a broad, blood-red border in the male, plain in the female;no dark spot on dorsal or anal. GENUS MICROTTERUS LACETEDE The Black Basses Body oblong, compressed, the back not much elevated; headoblong, conic; mouth very large, oblique, the broad maxillaryreaching nearly to or even beyond the eye; supplemental bonewell developed; lower jaw prominent; teeth on jaws, vomer andpalatines in broad villiform bands, the inner depressible; usuallyno teeth on tongue; preopercle entire, the opercle ending in 2flat points without cartilaginous flap;

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