Jordan and FA'ermann. — Fishes of North Atnerua. G41 



Cobitis beierocUta, LiNN^F.iis, Syst. Nat., Ed. xii, 500, 17CG, Charleston, South Carolina ; after 



the Mudfish of Db. Gardkn. 

 Pu'cilia cwtikota, Blocii & Scuxf.ideb, Syst. Ichth., 4.'>2, 1801, Carolina ; after Linn.eus. 

 Fundulus mudjish, LACEPfii)E, Ilist. Nat. Puiss., v, 37, 180.3, Carolina ; uftt-r Linn.kus. 

 Hijdrurijira swmiipina, LAcfipKDE, Hist. Nat. Poise., v, :i78, ISO?,, South Carolina. 

 Fiindtdm hvlerodUm, Gu.NTHER, Cat., vi, 318, 1860 ; JoRUAX k Gilbert, Synopsi.s, 33G, 1883; and 



of authors generally. 



Represented northward, Maine U> Virginia, by the dwarfish form 



932a. FUXDULrS HETEKOCLITUS MACKOLEPIDOTUiS (Wall>aum). 

 (Common Cobbler; Killifish.) 



Smaller in size than the typical heteroclitus (from South Carolina) ; the 

 fins lower, scarcely higher than in var. grandis. Longest dorsal ray 1* in 

 head ; A. 11. Scales on top of head rather smaller, body more slender 

 and coloration generally paler; females nearly plain, the young females 

 with dark bands. Maine to Virginia; everywhere very common in brack- 

 ish waters, apparently passing gradually into the typical hctcrocHtu-s, fvom 

 which it is scarcely to be separated even as a slight variety. {/nuKpoAem- 

 dcjTur, large-scaled.) 



Pcecilia macrolepidota, Walbaum, Artedi Piscium, in, 11, 1702, Long Island ; after Yellow- 

 bellied Cobbler of ScHiiPF, Naturf. Freuude., viii, 171, 1788. 



Cobilis li'dUfish, WalbaUiM, Artedi Piscium, in, 11, 1792, Long Island ; after Killifisli of 

 ScHOPF, Naturf. Freunde, viii, 172, 1738. 



Pfcdlia fasciata, Bloch & SoiiNElDEB, Syst. Ichth., 453,1801; after Yellow-licllied Cobbler of 



SCHiiPF. 



Esoxpisciculus, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 440, New York. 

 Efox piscidenlns, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 181.5, 441, New York. 

 Bydntrgyra nifjrofasciata* Le SuEUR, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1817, 133, Newport, 



Rhode Island. 

 Fundulus viridescens, De Kay, N. Y. Fauna : Fishes, 217, 1842, New York. 

 Fimdidm zehra, De Kay, N. Y. Fauna : Fishes, 218, 1842, New York. 

 Fundiduspisctdenitis, Storer, Fishes Mass., 294, 1839; and of many Aineriiau authors. 

 Fiindulus nigrofasciiilus, Stober, Fishes Mass., 295, 1839; GI'ntheb, Cat., vi, 323, 18G0; Jordan & 



Gilbert, Synopsis, 3.35, 1883. 



Represented along the Gulf Coast by 



932b. FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS GRAXDIS (Baiid & Girard) 



Size larger than in the typical heteroclitus, the coloration brighter, the 

 pale spots on the dorsal in the male larger, the dorsal and anal tins lower. 

 Longest ray of dorsal 2 in head in males, 2^- in females ; anal rays If in 

 males, 2 to 2i in females; tips of dorsal in males scarcely reaching half- 

 way to base of caudal. 



* The nominal species Fnndiihtx ni'jrofascialns, of which we have numerous specimeus from 

 Woods Holl, Mass., seems to us the young female of t^mdtdus heleroclUns macrot^idolus. It is 

 thus described by Dr. Giinther: 



Fiiiididnx nigrofasciatits (Le Sueur): Head 3;-|^; depth 4. D. 11; A. 9; scales 33-11. Body 

 rather short and deep; head rather long and depressed; the snout obtuse, a slight angle being 

 formed above the eye, dorsal moderate, well back; anal short and deep; eye longer than snout, 

 1% in interorbital space; 3'^ in head. Olivaceous above, silvery below; fins in both sexes 

 immaculate; males with 9 or 10 very distinct silvery crossbars, each about as l>road a.^ a scale; 

 females with about as many narrow lilack bars, which do not extend on the back or belly; scales 

 punctate. Length 2}-^ inches. (Giinther.) Atlantic coast of United States, recorded from 

 Massachusetts and Rliode Island. 



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