POMOTIS VULGARIS. 



of many individuals, and from very distant places ; then we shall see, as in the 

 animal now under consideration, that a " snout more pointed, a head more wrin- 

 kled, or dentations of the opercular bones equally marked, are not constant char- 

 acters." Dr. Storer, in his Synopsis of the Fishes of North America, was the first 

 who referred all the known varieties or supposed species to the Perca jlavescens. 



GENUS POMOTIS. — Cuvier. 



Characteks. Pre-opercle more or less denticulated ; inter-maxillary, vomerine, 

 inferior maxillary, and pharyngeal teeth; tongue and palate-bones smooth or 

 without teeth ; a membranous appendix at the angle of the opercle ; branchial 

 rays six. 



POMOTIS VULGAKIS. — Cuvier. 



Plate I. Fig. 2. 



Specific Characters. Body sub-ovoid ; brown, with a greenish tint above, 

 and with brazen or yellow tints and spots below ; head dusky above, with pale- 

 blue waving horizontal lines on the opercle and pre-opercle ; opercular appendix 

 dark, with a bright red blotch on its inferior posterior margin. D. 10-11. P. 13. 

 V. 1-5. A. 3-10. C. 17. 



Synonymes. Perca fluviatilis gibbosa ventre luteo, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. p. 8. 

 Labrus auritus, Mitch., Trans. Lit. and Phil. See. N. Y., vol. i. p. 403. 

 Pomotis vulgaris, Cuv. et Val., Hist. Nat. Polss., torn. iii. p. 91, pi. 49 ; id. vii. 465. 

 Pomotis vulgaris, Rich., Faun. Boreal. Am., iii. p. 24, fig. 76. 

 Pomotis vulgaris, Storer, Report, &c., p. 11. 



Pomotis vulgaris, Kirt., Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. iii. p. 471, pi. 28, fig. 11. 

 Pomotis vulgaris, DeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iii. p. 31, pi. 51, fig. 166. 

 Pomotis vulgaris, Ayres, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. iv. p. 258. 

 Pomotis vulgaris, Agassiz, Lake Superior, p. 293. 

 Pomotis vulgaris, Storer, Synops., p. 40. 

 Perch or Sun-fish, Vulgo. 



