996 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



cc. Eye 3}/^ to 3% in head; color olive, usually with many dark bronze spots like fly 

 specks scattered over the body; no black spot on last rays of dorsal and anal. 



ruNCTAxrs, l;!n4. 



Ih. Scales large, 33 to 35; color green, with ilarkor bars; dorsal tin nsvially with a Mai k 



ocellated spot at base of last rays. symmetricus, 1395. 



1391. APOMOTIS CYANELLUS (Rafinesque). 

 (Blue-spotted Sunfish ; Green Sunfish ; Little Red-eye.) 



Head 3 ; depth 2i. D. X, 11 ; A. Ill, 9 ; scales small, 6 or 7-45 to 55-16 ; 

 40 to 48 pores ; 8 rows on cheek. Body oblong, rather elongate, becoming 

 short and deep with age; moderately compressed. Head large, with pro- 

 jecting snout. Month rather large, the maxillary broad and flat, with a 

 small supplemental bone, reaching nearlj^ to middle of eye; lower 

 jaw projecting. Dorsal spines quite low, the highest scarcely longer than 

 snout, 3 to 4 in head in the adult, longer in the young. Opercular spot 

 small, less than eye, broadly margined with bronze, the black confined to 

 the bony part. Gill rakers moderate, x + 13. Pectoral short, not reach 

 ing anal, li in head; ventrals not reaching vent. Color variable, the 

 prevailing shade green with a strong brassy luster on sides, which becomes 

 nearly yellow below ; each scale usually with a sky-blue spot and more or 

 less of gilt edging, giving an appearance of pale lateral streaks ; besides 

 these marks, dusky or obscure vertical bars are often present, and the 

 sides are sprinkled with dark dots ; vertical fins marked with blue or 

 green, the anal usually edged in front with pale orange ; usually a con- 

 spicuous black spot on posterior base of dorsal and anal, these often obso- 

 lete ; iris red ; cheeks with narrow blue stripes. Length 7 inches. Very 

 variable. Great Lake region to Mexico ; very abundant from Ohio south- 

 westward to the Rio Grande; ascending small brooks; not found east of 

 the Alleghanies. (Kvdveo^, hlne.) 

 Lepomis cyanelliiti, Kafinesque, Jouru. de Physique, 1819, 420, Ohio River; Jordan & Gilbert, 



Synojisis, 474, 1883; Bollman, I. c, 509; Evekmann &, Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 



XII, 1892 (1894), 111. 

 Icthelis melanops, Uafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 28, 1820, Ohio River. 

 Pomotis Iniigulus, Baird it GiRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853, 391, Otter Creek, Arkansas; 



(Coll. Capt. Geo. B. McCIellan). 

 Calliurus diaphamis, Girakd, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 200, 1857, Rio Blanco, Texas. 

 CalUurus fonnosiis, GiRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 200, 1857, Arkansas. 

 Calliurus vticrops, GiRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 200, 1857, Rio Blanco, Texas. 

 Calliurttsmnrimis,* GiRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 200, 1857, Texas; (.Tyjie, No. 415). 

 Bnjtlus siijni/er, GiRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 201, 1857, Rio Medina, Texas. 

 Brytliis miiieopas, Cove, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 84, 18115, Whittlesey Lake, Minnesota. 

 Calliurus lotigulns, GiRARD, Kept. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Ichth., 5, pi. iv, figs. 1-4, 18.:9. 

 Apoviotis cyanellus, Boi'LENOEr, Cat., 1,21. 



* The specimens called Calliurus murinns hj Girard are nearly all the ordinary cyanellus. One 

 of them (No. 415, U. S. N. M.) differs somewhat and has been regarded by McKay as a distinct 

 species, thus described: 



Apo)<iotismm-inus{(i\rAri\): Head2g; depth3. D. X, 10; A. Ill, 9; scales 7-42-15. Body elongate, 

 8ome\Yhat compressed, the form precisely as in Ajyomolis ciiauellus. Mouth rather large; maxil- 

 lary altout reaching front of eye; teeth on vomi'r and front of palatines. Gill rakers moderate, 

 9 or 10 developed. Snpplemental maxillary scarcely appreciable. Eye equal to iuterorbital 

 width. Cheeks with 7 rows of scales. Spinons dorsal rather high, the longest spine about as 

 long as from tip of snout to pupil; pectorals short, scarcely reaching vent. Scales small, reduced 

 ont)reast. Dark greenish; a blaclc spot on dorsal as in A. cyanellus. Characters from No. 415, 

 U. S. Nat, Mus., from Texas; detinito locality not known, {imtrinus, like a mouse, Mus.) 



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