352 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
167. — ESOX Linnaeus. 
Pikes. 
(Linnaeus, Sj’stcma Naturic : type Eaox luchis L.) 
Characters of the genus included above. (Latin, esox, a pike; Greek, 
iffo^ i)robal)ly from equal; sharp.) 
a. Cheeks .as well as opcrclcs entirely scaly ; branchiosteg.als 11-14 ; color greenish, 
reticulated. (rUvreUns^ Raf. ) 
h, Branchiosteg.als normally 12. 
573. E. a:iica’ac:i 0 iii$ Gmelin. — Banded Pickerel. 
Lody short and robust; head heavy, with blunt short snout, ; eye 
rather large, about 5 in head, its diameter nearly half the length of the 
snout, its posterior margin scarcely behind middle of head ; upper 
branchiostegals scaly. Dark green ; sides with about twenty distinct, 
blackish, curved bars, sometimes obscurely marked, but not distinctly 
reticulated ; a black bar below eye, another from upper edge of opercle 
through eye to snout. Ilead 3f ; depth oL B. 12-13 ; D. 11 ; A. 11 ; 
Lat. 1. 105. L. 12 inches. A small pickerel, abundant from ]\Iassachu- 
setts to Florida, in streams east of the mountains. 
{Esox Inxiiis, fiamericanus Gindin, Systema Natune, 1788, 1390: Esox niger Le Sueur, 
Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. i, 415; Esox fasciatus Dekay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 
224 : Esox ornutus Storer, Fish. Mass. 313: Esox niger Giiuther, vi, 229; Esox raveneli 
Holbr. Ich. S. C. 1860, 201.) 
571. E. siatmoiBCHS Raf. — Little Pickerel. 
Body moderately stout, somewhat compressed ; head rather short, 
longer than in E. americamis, but shorter than in E. reticiilatns, the ej’e 
beuig exactly in the middle of the head; eye large, less than 3 times in 
snout, about G in head ; caudal well forked. Color green or grayish ; 
sides with many curv'ed streaks, sometimes forming bars, but more 
usually forming marmorations or reticulations, the color extremely vari- 
able, sometimes quite plain ; sides of head usually variegated ; a dark 
bar downward from eye, and one forward ; base of caudal sometimes 
mottled; other tins usually plain. Head 3.J; depth 5-6. D. 11; A. 11; 
Lat. 1. 105. L. 12 inches. Mississippi Valley and southeastward, a 
small species very abundant in the small streams and bayous of the 
South and West. 
(R.ahnesf[ue, Ich. Oh. 1820, 70; Jorthan, M.'in. Vert. ed. 2d, 2G3: Esox innbrosus Kirt- 
laud, Cleveland Aun.als of Science, 1854, 79: Esox umlrosus Cope, Traus. Am. Phil. 
Soc. Phila. 1866, 409: Esox cgpho Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, 79: Esox 
cgpho Giinther, vi, 230: Esoxporosus Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1866, 408. This 
form {cgpho = porosus), distinguished mainly l)y the arched back and steep profile, is 
probably a variety or accidental form of the preceding.) 
* Rafinestpie, Ich. Oh. 1820, 70: type Esox vittatns Raf. (A latinization of pickerel.) 
