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FISHES OF ILLINOIS 



haus. It has been reported from the Little Miami in Hamilton 

 county, Ohio. From these more northerly localities it ranges south- 

 eastward to west Florida and south westward to the .Rio Grande. 



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Fig. 66 



EUPOMOTIS GIBBOSUS (Linn^us) 

 (pumpkinseed) 



Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Xat., Ed. X, 292 (Perca). 



J. & G., 482 (Lepomis); M. V., 119 (Lepomis); J. & E., I, 1009; B., I. 32 (aureus); 



N., 38 (Pomotis auritus) ; J., 46 (aureus); P., 67 (Lepomis); L., 25; R., 35, F. 



F., I. 3, 53 (aureus). 



Length of adults 5 to 8 inches; body strongly compressed, short and 

 deep, the back very highly arched in adults, ventral outline less curved 

 than dorsal; profile steep, convex in front of dorsal, the depression at 

 the nape rather slight. Coloration exceedingly brilliant and somewhat 



variable, olive to grassy greenish, the back 

 and upper portion of body finely dusted 

 with gold or emerald; sides with quite 

 numerous and irregularly distributed large 

 roundish blotches, which are olive to cop- 

 pery in front and darker behind, or dark 

 all about a roundish coppery-colored cen- 

 tral spot; single scales below lateral line 

 each with a quadrate central spot, these 

 spots forming rows from before backward, 

 alternate ones coppery and forming the 

 central or anterior spot of the large 

 blotches before mentioned, the others 

 bright emerald or turquoise-blue; belly 

 light olive to orange-yellow; cheeks and 

 opercles crossed by four or five wavy lines 

 of emerald, the interspaces with mingled 

 Lower left pharyngeal of Eupo- coppery and gold over the ground olive, 

 moiis gibbosHs': Fig. 66, from producing the effect of a rich bronze m 

 above; Fig. 67, from outside, well-colored examples ; iris variegated blue 



and greenish with some crimson above 

 pupil ; flap of opercle velvety black behind ; a definitely bounded round- 

 ish spot of orange or turkey-red on the lower posterior portion of the 

 fleshy margin; the margin above and below the spot dark to blackish 

 with some copperv luster; membranes of both portions of dorsal and of 

 caudal and anal somewhat irregularly barred with dull brownish to 

 orange blotches; ventrals dusky in males, paler or entirely pale in females. 

 Head small, short, 2.8 to 3.2 in length; the snout with a somewhat 

 snubbed appearance, very short, its length scarcely more than eye; eye 

 3 . 5 to 4 . 2 in head ; mouth small, the jaws equal ; maxillary reaching but 

 a little past front of orbit, 2 . 6 to 3 . 3 in head; no supplemental maxillary 

 and no palatine teeth; lower pharyngeals broad and deep, with inferior 

 and lateral prominences; the teeth short and stout, their upper surfaces 



Fig. 67 



