TABLE OF CONTENTS ix 



Family AMEIURIDAE (The North American 



Catfish Family) 169 



Family UMBRIDAE (The Mudminnow Family) ... 183 



Family ESOCIDAE (The Pike Family) 185 



Family ANGUILLIDAE (The Eel Family) 192 



Family CYPRINODONTIDAE (The Killifish Family) . 194 



Family PERCOPSIDAE (The Troutperch Family) ... 197 



Family APHREDODERIDAE (The Pirateperch Family) 199 



Family SERRANIDAE (The Sea Bass Family) .... 201 



Family PERCIDAE (The Perch Family) 204 



Family CENTRARCHIDAE (The Sunfish Family) . . 226 



Family ATHERINIDAE ( The Silverside Family) ... 245 



Family SCIAENIDAE (The Drum, Family) 247 



Family COTTIDAE (The Sculpin Family) 250 



Family GASTEROSTEIDAE (The Stickleback Family) . 255 



Family GADIDAE (The Codfish Family) 258 



Bibliography 261 



Index 267 



DIAGRAMS 



1. Hypothetical drawing of a spiny -rayed fish 53 



2. Gill-membranes united to, and free from, isthmus . . 57 



3. Heterocercal, modified heterocercal, and homocercal tails 59 



4. Mouth arrangement in two species of Coregonidae . . 97 



5. Lower lip arrangement in Moxostoma 119 



6. Differences in the head structures of the Carpiodes . . 125 



7. Arrangement of teeth m,-fcbe-Ameiuridae 170 



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