CHAPTER II. 

 NOMENCLATURE AND MORPHOLOGY. 



Genus MICROPTERUS Lacepede. 



ADDITIONAL SYNONOMY AND EEFERENCES. 



Grystes Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., i, 252, 1859. 

 Huro Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., i, 255, 1859. 

 Grystes Gunther, lutro. Study of Fishes, 392, 1880. 

 Haro Gunther, lutro. Study of Fishes, 393, 1880. 

 Mkropterm Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvii, 32, 1880. 

 Micropterus Cope, Rept. Pa. Fish Com., 130, 1881. 

 Micropterm Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. Fishes N. A., 484, 1882. 

 Micropterus Jordan, Geol. Surv. Ohio, iv, 942, 1882. 

 Micropterus Gill, Standard Nat. Hist., iii, 230, 1885. 

 Micropterus Jordan, Manual Vertebrates, 120, 1888. 



Generic Characterizations. 



Grystes Gunther, 1880. — "Body oblong, covered with scales 

 of moderate size. All the teeth villiform, without canines ; teeth 

 on the vomer and palatine bones. One dorsal fin with ten spines ; 

 anal with three; caudal fin rounded. Prseoperculum with a 

 single smooth margin. One species, from the fresh waters of the 

 United States {G. salmonoides) , attains to a length of more than 

 two feet. It is known by the name of ' Growler,' and eaten." — 

 (Gunther, Introduction to Study of Fishes, 393, 1880.) 



Huro Gunther, 1880. — "Body oblong, compressed, covered 

 with scales of moderate size. All the teeth villiform ; bones of 



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