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167. ESOX Liimauis. 



Pikes. 



(Liiiiia'iis, Syxtrma Natnnr : tyi>r /.W luciux L.) 



Characters of tlie genus included above. (Latin, esox, a pike; Greek, 

 <;<>;] probably from rro<r, equal; </7u?, sharp.) 



(/. cli.-rUs as \\.-ll as opi'irlrs entirely scaly; branchiostegals 11-14; color greenish, 

 rrlirnlatcd. (1'inn-i'llnx* Rat'.) 



fc. liram-hiosti'-jals normally 12. 

 573. E. ailiericailllS Ginelin. Bandit /'iVAr/vf. 



Body short and robust ; head heavy, with blunt short snout, ; eye 

 rather large, about 5 in head, its diameter nearly half the length of the 

 snout, its posterior margin scarcely behind middle of head; upper 

 branch!. stegals scaly. Dark green ; sides with about twenty distinct, 

 blackish, curved bars, sometimes obscurely marked, but not distinctly 

 reticulated ; a black bar below eye, another from upper edge of opercle 

 through eye to snout. Head 3f; depth 5i. B. 12-13; D. 11; A. 11 j 

 Lat. 1. 105. L. 12 inches. A small pickerel, alnndant from Massachu- 

 setts to Florida, in streams east of the mountains. 



(AW liH-inx, fjdiiii-riciiiinx Ginelin, Systnna Nature. 1783, 1390: Exox nigcr Lo Sueur, 

 Journ. Arad. Nat. Sri. 1'hila. i, 415: 7i'w.r fuxciatu* Drkay, NV\v York Fauna, Fishes, 

 'J-J1 : />').' (inmtii* SUin-r, Fish. Mass. :H:'. : Kxo.c u'j<r Giinthcr, vi, '2-."J: llw rurut>H 

 Holbr.Ich.S.C. 1860, 201.) 



571. E. s;I0HOll'US Kaf. Lilllc 



Body moderately stout, somewhat compressed; head rather short, 

 longer than in /;. ttim-ricanuN, but shorter than in E. reticuhttn*, the f.vc 

 being exaetly in the middle of the head; eye large, less than 3 times in 

 snout, about <! in head; caudal well forked. Color green or grayish; 

 sides with many curved streaks, sometimes forming bars, but more 

 usually forming marmorations or reticulations, the color extremely vari- 

 able. sometimes quite plain; sides of head usually variegated: a dark 

 bar downward from eye, and one forward; base of caudal sometimes 

 mottled; other lins usually plain. Head:'..]: depth 5-6. D. 11; A. 11; 

 Lat. 1. 1 (.'."">. L. 12 inches. Mississippi Valley and southeastward, a 

 small species very abundant in the small streams and bayous of the 



South and West. 



Bafinee |n.-, I<-li.<>h. 1-JO, 70; Jordan, Man. V.-rl. rd. 'Jd, '2(H : />".' niii!iri>xii.i Kirt- 

 land, Cleveland Annals of Science, l~.".l, 7H: EsOX n,i,l>n>xnn Cope, Trans. Am. 1'liil. 

 S.c. I'liila. l-ili;, 1IKI: /;.v,,.,- ,///,/,* C(.|>.-. 1'iur. A.-al. Nat.Sci. Thila. l-i>."., 71: / 

 Ci/i'lio (Jiinllirr, vi, 830: E80XpOr08U8 CO|M-. Trans. Am. Hiil.Sor. I'liila. l-llC,, KK This 

 loi-m i < H/ilio -. poroaiu), di-lin-ni-licil inainl\ l>\ tin' aivlii'd liai-k and sleep jirolilr, is 

 ]>rol>al)ly a \ aricty or a <-ri denial 1'onn of llir preceding.) 



nc, h'li. Oh. 1820, 70: type Esox rittutiis Raf. (A latiuization oi 'pickerel.) 



