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BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



lUENTinCATIONS. 



Micropterns fasciatua Cope 



Micropterus acliigitn Gill 



Micropterus saliuoides Gill 



Dioplites treculii Vaillant & Bocourt 



Diup] i tes nuecensiri Vai llant & Boco urt 



Dioplites variabilis Vaillant & Bocourt 



Dioplites salmoides Vaillant & Bocourt 



Micrt)ptcrns floridanus Goode 



Micropterus pallidus GUI & Jordan 



Micropterus salmoides var. salmoides Jordan. 

 Micropterus salmoides var. acliigan Jordan. 

 Micropterus salmoides Vaillant & Bocourt... 

 Micropterus nuecensis Vaillant & Bocourt... 

 Micropterus variabilis Vaillant & Bocourt.. 

 Micropterus dolomieu Vaillant & Bocourt... 



1SG5 

 18G0 

 187;^ 

 1874 

 1874 

 1874 

 1874 

 1870 

 1877 

 1878 

 1878 

 ined. 

 ined. 

 ined 

 ined. 



Micropterus dolomieu. 

 Micropterus dolomieu. 

 Micropterus dolomieu. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 M. dolo. rar. achigan. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 M. dolomieu ra?-. dolo. 

 M. dolo. var. achigan. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 M. dolo. rar. achigan. 

 M. dolomieu rar. dolo. 



SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES OF ISIICROPTERUS. 



Common Characters. — Body elongated, ovate-fusiform; slightly 

 compressed ; arched and thick along the back, thinner 

 and straight along the belly ; lower jaw longest ; both 

 jaws armed with broad bands of small, pointed, re- 

 curved, card-like teeth of uniform size; villiform teeth 

 on vomer, palatine and ])haryngeal bones ; teeth on 

 gill-raker.s ; spinous and soft portions of dorsal fin 

 partly divided by a notch; anal fin with three spines; 

 caudal fin emarginate; opercule eniarginate behind, 

 ending in two flat points; supplemental maxillary 

 bone well developed. 



* Mouth large; angle of mouth anterior to the posterior border 

 of the eye. 



•j- Third donsal spine only one-half higher than the first. 



a. Notch between spinous and soft rays of dorsal comparatively 

 shallow. 



