Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1133 



elongate, little compressed, the depth less than \ the length : back little 

 arched ; head subconical ; mouth large, oblique, the maxillary reaching to 

 nearly below middle of orbit, 2i in head, its width at tip nearly | diameter 

 of eye ; teeth on base of tongue in two parallel patches ; interorbital space 

 wide; lower jaw projecting; eye ^ to | the length of the rather sharp 

 snout, 5 to 7 in head; preorbital entire; preopercle rather weakly serrate, 

 the teeth strongest at the angle ; margin of subopercle entire ; suprascap- 

 ula entire ; gill rakers long and slender, about 4 + 15 ; dorsal fins 

 entirely separated; spines slenderer than in allied species ; longest dorsal 

 spine 2i!r in head; anal spines graduated; second anal spine 5 to 6 in head; 

 Caudal forked, the middle rays f length of outer. Color olivaceous, sil- 

 very, often brassy-tinged ; sides paler, marked with 7 or 8 continuous or 

 interrupted blackish stripes, one of them along the lateral line ; fins pale. 

 Atlantic coast of the United States, from New Brunswick to the Escambia 

 River, Florida, ascending all rivers in spring for the purpose of spawn- 

 ing; rather rare in the Gulf of Mexico ; most common from Cape Cod to 

 Cape May; occasionally in Lake Ontario. Introduced by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission into Sacramento River and elsewhere on the west coast, 

 where it has become an abundant and valuable food-fish. This species is 

 one of the most important of the game and food-fishes of America. It is 

 very abundant throughout its range and reaches a large size, often 

 weighing 30 to 90 pounds. The largest one ever reported, according to 

 Goode, was taken at Orleans, Massachusetts, and weighed 112 pounds. 

 Its flesh is firm, white, flaky, and of excellent flavor, (lineatm, striped.) 



Perca Eocli-Jish vel Striped Bass, Schopf, Schrift. der Gesells. Nat. Freunde, vin, 160, 1788, New 



York. 

 Perca soaaH/is, Walbaum, Artedi Genera Piscium, 330, 1788, New York; after Schopf. 

 Sciiena lineata, Bloch, Ichthyologia, ix, 53, pi. 305, 1792, Mediterranean Sea; figure incorrect, 



but probably from an American specimen. 

 Perca scplentrionalis, Bloch & Schneider, Ss'stema Ichthyol., 90, pi. 70, 1801, New York. 

 Eoccus striatiis, Mitchill, Kep. Fishes N. T., 25, 1814, specimens from New York. ; Be-^vx, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 243, specimens from Montgomery, Alabama. 

 Perca mitchilli, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 413, pi. 3, fig. 4, 1815, New York. 

 Perca mitchilli alteiiiata, MlTCHlLL, /. c, 415, 1815, New York. 



Perca mitchiUiiiUernipta, MiTCHiLL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. T., 415, 1815, New York. 

 Lepibema lineatum, Steindachner, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien., xil, 1862, 504. 

 Lepibema viiichilli, K.^FiNESQrE, Ichthyologia Ohiensis, 23, 1820. 

 Labrax lineatns, CuviER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. des Poissons, ii, 79, 1828. 

 Rocciis lineatns, Gin, Ichth. Kep. Capt. Simpson's E.xpl. Great Ba.sin Utah, 391, 1876; Goode, 



Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim., 425, 1884. 

 Eoccus saxatilis, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 599. 

 Rocctis lineatrts, Jordan & Eiqenmann, 1. c, 423, 1890. 

 Morone lineata, Boulenger, Cat., l, 129. 



492. MORONE, Mitchill. 

 (White Perch.) 



Morone, MiTcniLL, Fishes of New York, 18, I8I4, {rufa auA Jlarescens : the genua properly a syno- 

 nym of Perca). 

 Morone, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 111, (restriction to americana-rii/a). 



Body rather short and deep, compressed: maxillary broad, naked, with- 

 out supplemental bone ; teeth suhequal, lower jaw scarcely projecting ; no 



