i^36 COXTIIIRUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
cross bars, each about as broad as a scale; females with about as uiaiiy 
narrow black bars, which do not extend on the back or belly; scales 
j)imctat(*. Head ‘> 5 ; dei)th I. 1). 11; A. 0; scales .33-! 1 . L.2iinches. 
{(riinthcr.) Atlantic coast of United States, not very common. 
{Ihldrarijijra iii(/rofaiiciata Le Suetir, Jourii. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1817, i, 133; 
.Stoicr, Fi.sli Masa, ‘21)5: Giinther, vi, 3‘.i5. ) 
//. Males with silvery spots and bars; females nearly plain olivaceons; fins spotted. 
5151. F. lit*l<*roclitus (L.) Giinther . — Common KiUifnih; Mummichog; Salt-uat(r 
Minnow. 
Body thick-set, short and deep; anteriorly broad, jiosteriorlj’^ com- 
Itressed, the back elevated ; head rather short, blunt, broad and Hat on 
top; eye moderate, about equal to snout, about half the width of inter- 
orbital space and one-tifth of the leno-th of the head ; tins moderate, the 
dorsal insei'ted in males midway between snout and tip of caudal; in 
females farther back ; oviduct attached to anterior ray of anal fin, its 
openinw near the ti^) of the ray; teeth in broad bands, pointed, the 
outer series enlarged. Coloration in males dark dull green, the belly 
more or less orange yellow; sides with nnmerons quite narrow ill- 
iletined silverj’ bars made up of spots, most di.stinct iiosteriorly ; besides 
these are nnmerons con.spicnons white or yellow spots, irregularly scat- 
tered ; vertical fins dark, with nnmevons small round pale spots ; dorsal 
often with a blackish si)ot on its last ray; anal and ventrals yellow 
anteriorly; under side of head yellow; young males sometimes with 
dark bars. Females nearly plain olivaceons, lighter below, without 
spots or bars, the scales finely punctate; sides sometimes with a few 
faint vertical shades. Head 3§ ; depth 3|. B. 11 ; A. 11 ; scales 3G-13; 
L. 3-0 inches. Maine to ^Mexico, everywhere very common in brackish 
waters, the most abundant of our Ci/prmodontidfc. Southern specimens 
perhaps reach a larger size (var. grandh) than northern, and some speci- 
mens (var. piscidentus) have the head wider than usual. 
^Cohifii) heterocliia L. Syst. Nat.: Ehox iHHCulentus, Mitcli. Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. 
Y. i, 441 • Fundnlns piscuicntiiH of most American antliors: FundnluH zebra Dckay, N. Y. 
Fauna, Fish. ‘218, 184‘2: Fnndnlns grandis Baird & Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 
1853,389: Fnndnlns grandis Girnrd, IJ. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Ichth.dfi: Fnndnlns Jtori- 
densis Gii’ard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1859, 157: Fnndnlns piseulentns Storcr, Fish. 
Mass. 294 ; Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas. vi, 318.) 
Dorsal fin beginning directly above or slightly behind anal. (Xenisma* Jor.) 
•Jordan, Bull. Bull'. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1876, 14‘2: type Xenisma stellifera Jot. {^evio^a, 
a surprise.) 
