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BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



NOMINAL SPECIES. 



Micropterus fasciatus Cope 



Micropterus achigan Gill 



Micropterus salmoides Gill 



Dioplites treculii Vaillant & Bocourt 



Dioplites nuccensis Vaillant & Bocourt 



Dioplites variabilis Vaillant & Bocourt 



Dioplites salmoides Vaillant & Bocourt 



Micropterus floridanus Goode 



Micropterus pallidus Gill & Jordan 



Micropterus salmoides rar. salmoides Jordan. 

 Micropterus salmoides var. achigan Jordan. 

 Micropterus salmoides Vaillant & Bocourt... 

 Micropterus nuecensis Vaillant & Bocourt... 

 Micropterus variabilis Vaillant & Bocourt.. 

 i\Iicropterus dolomieu Vaillant & Bocourt... 



IDENTIFICATIONS. 



1865 

 1866 

 1873 

 1874 

 1874 

 1874 

 1874 

 1870 

 1877 

 1878 

 1878 

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Micropterus dolomieu. 

 Micropterus dolomieu. 

 Micropterus dolomieu. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 M. dolo. var. achigan. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 M. dolomieu var. dolo. 

 M. dolo. mr. achigan. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 Micropterus salmoides. 

 M. dolo. var. achigan. 

 M. dolomieu var. dolo. 



SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES OF MICROPTERUS. 



Common Characters. — Body elongated, ovate-fnsiform ; 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 pharyngeal bones ; teeth on 

 gill-rakers; spinous and soft portions of dorsal fin 

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

 caudal fin emarginate; opercule emarginate behind, 

 ending in two flat points; supplemental maxillary 

 bone well developed. 



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

 of the eye. 



t Third dorsal spine only one-half higher than the first. 



a. Notch between spinous and soft rays of dorsal comparatively 

 shallow. 



