112 BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



Micropterus nigricans Gill, Pro. Am. Asso. Adv. Sci. 



B. 70, 1873. 

 Micropterus nigricans Jordan, lud. Geo!. Surv. 214, 



1874. 

 Micropterus nigricans Jordan, Man. Vert. E. U. S. 229, 



1876. 

 Micropterus nigricans Hallock, Sportsman's Gazetteer, 



273, 1877. (In part.) 

 1854 — Grystes nobilis Agassiz, Am. Jour. Sci. Art, XVII, 



298. 

 Grystes nobilis Putnam, Bull. Miis. Comp. Zool. I, 6, 



1863. (Name only.) 

 1854 — Grystes nuecemis Baird & Girard, Pro. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phil. VII, 25. 

 Dioplites nuecensis Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. X, 



Fishes, 4, 1858. 

 Grystes nuecensis Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. I, 



252, 1859. (Name only.) 

 Dioplites nnecensis Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. II, 



3, 1859. 

 Dioplites nuecensis Vaillant & Bocourt, MSS. Miss. 



Sci. au Mexique, 1874. 

 Micropterus nuecensis Vaillant & Bocourt, Miss. Sci. 



au Mexique : ined. 

 1857 — Grystes megastoma Garlick, Treat. Art. Prop. Fish, 108, 



1857. 

 1874 — Dioplites ireoulii Vaillant & Bocourt, MSS. Miss. Sci. 



au Mexique, 1874. (Zoologie, j^t. IV, plate IV, f. 2. 



No description ; the species since identified by its 



authors with M. miecensis.) 



Etymology : Sahnoides, trout-like ; salmon-like. 

 Habitat : Red River of the North to Florida ; Virginia 

 to Mexico; introduced eastward. 



