85. PEECID^ STIZOSTEDIUM. 
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269. — STIZOSTEB>3flJJI Iiafiues(iue. 
Pihe Perches. 
{Lncioperca Cuvier: Ceniropomus Bleeker.) 
{Stkostcdion Rafiuesque, Ichth. Oil. 1820, 23: type Ferca sahnonca Raf.) 
Body slender, elongate, fnsiforin. Head snbconical, long. Cheeks 
and opercles more or less scaly; toil of the head with some scales. 
Month large, the jaws about equal; premaxillaries [irotractile, little 
movable. Teeth in villiform bands, the jaws and ])alatines with long, 
sharp canines. Gill-rakers slender, strong; gill-membranes separate. 
Preopercle serrated ; opercle with one or more spines, terminations of 
radiating strise. Dorsal fins separate, the first with 12 to 15 spines; 
anal spines 2, slender; ventral fins not close together. Scales small, 
strongly ctenoid ; lateral line continnons. Psendobranchias well devel-‘ 
oped. Pyloric coeca 3 to 7. Large carnivorous fishes of the fresh waters 
of North America and Eiirope ; two strongly marked species on each 
continent. to prick; a little breast ; ‘‘the name means 
2 )uugent throat,” according to Eafiuesqne.) 
a. Pyloric coeca 3, subequal, all about asloug as the stomach. {Siizostediu7n.) 
827. S. VBlB’eiiJBa (Mitch.) Jordan & Copeland. — WaU-eijed Filcc ; Dory; Glass-eye; 
Yellow Dike; Blue Pike; Jack Salmon. 
Dark olive, finely mottled with brassy, the latter color forming indis- 
tinct oblique lines ; sides of head more or less vermicnlated ; lower jaw 
tiesh -colored; belly and lower fins pinkish; spinous dorsal with a large 
jet-black blotch on the membrane of the last two or three spines, other- 
wise nearly itlain ; second dorsal and caudal mottled olive and yellow- 
ish; base of pectorals dusky without distinct black blotch. Body slen- 
der, becoming compressed tvith age, the back more arched than in *S'. ca- 
nadcnsc. Dorsal si)ines high, more than half length of head; soft dorsal 
nearl.y as long as s])inons dor.sal. nea<l ; depth about 4.;y. Bye shorter 
than snout, 4i-5 in head. D. XIIT-I, 21 ; A. II, 12; Lat. 1. 90. Pyloric 
cceca 3, rather long. Great Lalce region. Upper Mississijipi, and some 
Atlantic streams, north to the fur countries; an abundant and valued 
food-fish, reaching a length of nearly 3 feet and a weight of 10 to 20 
pounds. 
{Ferca riirea Mitcb. Sup. Aiucr. Moiitb. Mag. ii, 247, 1818: Luciopcrca amcricana 
Cuv. & Val. ii, 122; Luciopcrca amcricana Giiiitber, i, 74; Jordan, Bull. 11. S. Nat. Mus, 
X, 43: Perea sahnonea Raf Aiiier. Mouth. Mag. v, 3.54, 1818: Stizoslc hium salmontnm 
