FISHES 



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O. emilice Hay. Length 55 mm.; head 4.5; depth 4.4; color yellowish; 

 sides silvery, with usually a dark lateral band; a black spot on hinder 

 part of dorsal fin; rays of dorsal fin 9; anal 8; scales 6-40-4; mouth 

 very oblique; body elongate, compressed: Lake Erie to Georgia and 

 Mississippi; common towards the south in sandy lowland streams. 



O. hollmani Gilbert. Length 50 mm.; head 4.4; depth 4.6; color 

 dark olive, with a black lateral band and a large spot at the base of the 

 tail; rays of the dorsal and anal fins 8; scales 5-37-4; mouth slightly 

 obhque; lateral line on but 7 or 8 scales: Georgia and Tennessee; scarce. 



21. Abramis Cuvier. Breams. Body elliptical, strongly com- 

 pressed, the belly forming a keel behind the ventral fins, which is naked; 



Fig. 34. — Abramis crysoleiicas {from Jordan cr' Evermann), 



teeth 5-5, hooked; no barbels; dorsal fin behind the ventrals: Europe 

 and America; i species in the United States. 



A. crysoleiicas (Mitchill). Golden shiner (Fig. 34). Length 300 

 mm.; head 4.5; depth 3; color clear greenish above; sides silvery, with 

 golden reflections; fins yellowish; rays of dorsal fin 8; anal 11 to 14; 

 scales 10-46 to 55-3; mouth small, oblique; lateral line decurved: 

 Nova Scotia to Dakota, southward to Tennessee and Texas; very 

 common in weedy ponds and streams. 



Subspecies of A . crysoleiicas 



A. c. hosci (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Rays of anal fin 16; scales 

 8-43-2 ; lower fins scarlet in males : south Atlantic States. 



22. Cliola Girard. Body stout; teeth 4-4; dorsal fin over ventrals 

 and with its first ray separated from the rest by a membrane: 2 

 species. 



