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56. Tullibee ; Mongrel Whitefish (Argyrosomus tullibee Richardson). 



Coregonns tullibee JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 301, 1883 5 BEAN, 

 Fishes Penna., 70, pi. 27, fig. 49, 1893. 



Argyrosomus tullibee JORDAN, Man. Vert. ed. 2, 361, 1878 ; EVERMANN & SMITH, Rept. 

 U. S. F. C., XX, 320, pi. 28, 1896 ; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 473, 1896 ; BEAN, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 343, 1897. 



The body of the Tullibee is very short, deep and compressed ; its greatest height 

 about one-third of the length without caudal. The head is pointed, as in the black- 

 fin, the mouth large, with the lower jaw scarcely longer than the upper. The 

 maxilla extends to below the middle of the eye. The eye equals the snout in 

 length and is two-ninths of length of the head. Scales much larger on front part of 



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body than on the caudal peduncle. The gill rakers are long, slender and numerous, 

 about 30 below the angle on the first arch. D. 11 ; A. 11. Scales in lateral line 74, 

 eight rows above and seven below lateral line; pyloric caeca, 120. The upper parts 

 are blueish ; sides white and minutely dotted. The spermary, according to Rich- 

 ardson, is wood-brown. 



This species is usually called the Tullibee, but in Lakes Erie and Michigan it is 

 sometimes styled the Mongrel Whitefish on the supposition that it is a cross 

 between the common Whitefish and the Lake Herring. 



The Tullibee has been taken recently in Lake Michigan ; and Dr. E. Sterling 

 had a specimen from Lake Erie. It is found occasionally in others of the Great 

 Lakes, and extends northward into British America, but is comparatively little 

 known to the fishermen and is very rare in collections. This fish grows to a length 



of 18 inches. 



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