76 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES 



C. coerulea (Jord.). Length 75 mm.; head 4.3; depth 4.6; color 

 steel blue; sides and belly white, with a lateral blue-green band and a 

 spot at the base of the tail fin ; fins bright yellow with white tips ; scales 

 6-38-3: Alabama basin; common. 



C. whipplii (Gir.). Silver-fin. Length 100 mm.; head 4.3; depth 

 4.6; color silvery, being bluish in the male; edges of scales dusky; a 

 large black spot on the upper posterior part of the dorsal fin; paired 

 fins white; scales 5-35 to 40-3 : western New York to Minnesota; south- 

 ward to Alabama and Arkansas; abundant in clear streams. 



Fig. 36. — Luxilus cornutiis {frotn Fishes of Illinois). 



C. galadura (Cope). Length 150 mm.; head and depth 4.3; color 

 steel blue above; a black blotch on the hinder rays of the dorsal fin; 

 caudal fin yellow at base; scales 6-41-3: Ozark region to Georgia and 

 South Carolina; abundant in mountain streams. 



C. camura (Jordan and Meek). Length 100 mm.; head 4.3; depth 

 3.5; color as in C. whipplii; rays of anal fin 9; scales 6-38-4: Arkansas, 

 Kansas and southwestern Missouri; not rare. 



C. pyrrhomelas (Cope). Length 80 mm.; head 4; depth 3.75; color 

 dark steel blue, abruptly white below; head reddish ; dorsal fin very high, 

 dusky at base, with a black blotch above and red in front; anal fin large 

 and with 10 rays; tail fin very broad, pale at base and tip and with dark 

 and scarlet cross bands; scales 6-35-3: Santee basin, Carolina; very 

 common. 



36. Luxilus Rafinesque. Shiners. Teeth 2, 4-4, 2 or rarely 2, 

 4-4, i; scales large, about 40 in the lateral line; size relatively large; 

 anal fin with 9 rays; usually with no black spot on dorsal fin: 6 species. 



L. cornutus (Mitchill). Common shiner; redfin; dace (Fig. 36). 

 Length 125 to 200 mm.; head 4; depth :-,.t, to 4.4; teeth 2, 4-4, 2; color 



