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Genus 794. MICROPTERUS lacepede. Black bass. 



Mirroptrrits Lac(^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 325, 1802 (M. dolomieu 



Lac6pede). 

 Calliurns Rafinesque, Jour, de PhY.sique, 1819, 420 (C p^o^ct^datus Raf.) 

 Aplites Rafinesque, Ichtli. Oliiensis, 1820, 30 {Lepomis pallida Raf.). 

 1 N emocampsis Rafinesque, loc. cit., 30 {Lepomis flexuolaris Raf.). 

 Dioplites Rafinesque, loc. cit., 32 {Lepomis not/tla^ Raf.). 

 Aplesion Rafinesque, loc. cit., 36 {Ethcostoma calliura Raf.). 



2315. Micropterus dolomieu Lac6pede. Small-mouthed black bass; Achigan 



noir; Achigan petite bouchg; Bass; Bass hogfish; Black bass; Black 



fresh-water bass; Black perch; Bronze-backer; Brown bass; Brown 



trout; Dwarf bass; Gold bass; Green bass; Green perch; Green trout; 



Hog bass; Jumper; Little bass; Minny bass; Mountain trout; Redeye; 



River bass; Rock bass; Speckled hen; Spotted river bass; Streaked-cheeked 



river bass; Streaked lead; Swago bass;Swego; Trout bass; Trout perch; White 



trout; Yellow bass; Yellow perch. 

 Lake Champlain to Manitoba and southward on both sides of the 



mountains to South Carolina and Arkansas. 

 Micropterus dolomieu Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1802, 325, type 



locality uncertain, probably South Carolina. 

 Labrus salmoides Lacepede, loc. cit., IV, 1802, 716, South Carolina. 

 Bodianus achigan Rafinesque, Amer. Month Mag., II, 1817, 120, New 



York. 

 Calliurns punctulatus Rafinesque, Jour, de Phj'sique, 1819, 420, falls 



of the Ohio River. 

 Lepomis pallida Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohicnsis, 1820, 30, Ohio, Miami, 



and Hocking Rivers. 

 Lepomis trifasciata Rafinesque, loc. cit., 31, Ohio River. 

 "^.Lepomis flexuolaris Rafinesque, loc. cit., 31, Ohio River. 

 Lepomis salmonca Rafinesque, loc. cit., 32, Kentucky, Green, Licking, 



and Ohio Rivers. 

 Lepomis notata Rafinesque, loc. cit., 32, Ohio River. 

 Etheostoma calliura Rafinesque, loc. cit., 36, Ohio River; Salt River, Ky. 

 Cichla fasciata LeSueur, Jour., Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., II, 1822, 216, 



Lake Erie. 

 Cichla ohiensis LeSueur, loc. cit., 218, Ohio River. 

 Cichla minima LeSueur, loc. cit., 220, Lake Erie. 

 Centrarchus obscurus DeKay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 30, pi. 



17, fig. 48, Onondaga Creek, N. Y. 

 Dioplites variabilis Vaillant and Bocourt, Miss. Sci. Mex., Poissons. 



1875-188.3, 142, Wabash River, New Harmony, Ind. 



2316. Micropterus pseudoplites Hubbs. Kentucky black bass. 



Southeastern United States from western West Virginia northward to 



southern Ohio, westward to Kansas and central Texas. 

 Micropterus pseudaplites Hubbs, Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci., Part I, V, Jan. 



1, 1927, 137, nomen nudum. 

 Micropterus pseudoplites Hubbs, Occ. Papers, Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. 



No. 184, June 29, 1927, 8, PI. I, figs. 2, 3, and 5, Forbush Creek near 



Mill Springs, Ky. 



Genus 795. APOMOTIS Rafinesque. 



Apomotis Rafinescjue, Jour, de Physique, LXXXVIII, 1819, 420 



{Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque). 

 Telipomis Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 27 {Lepomis cyanellus 



Rafinesque). 

 Bryttus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 454, 401 {B. 



punctatus Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



2317. Apomotis cyanellus (Rafinesque). Blue-spotted sunfish; Green sunfish; 



Little red-eye; Blackeyes; Blackeye .sunfish; Blue-and-green sunfish; 

 Blue bass; Bluefish; Blue sunfish; Bream; Buffalo sunfish; Perch; Red- 

 eye; Sunfish; Blanco perch; Wood bass. 



Great Lakes region to Mexico; very abundant from Ohio south westward 

 to the Rio Grande. 



Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, Jour, de Physique, LXXXVIII, 1819, 

 420, Ohio River. 



Icthelis melanops Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 28, Ohio River. 



