PISHES PERCIDAE — DIOPLITES NUECENSIS — POMOXIS O 



of the Tennessee river. It has, also, much greater affinities with D. fasciatus than with D. 

 salmoides. 



List of specimens. 



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396 

 397 

 398 

 399 

 400 

 401 

 4C2 

 403 

 371 

 372 

 387 

 388 

 389 

 390 

 391 

 392 

 393 

 394 

 395 

 303 

 3114 

 305 

 306 



CO 



Adt. 

 .do. 

 ..do. 

 Yg-- 

 ..do. 

 ..do. 

 ..do. 

 Adt. 

 .. do. 

 Yg.. 



Adt. 



Yg... 

 ..do.. 



Yg.- 



..do... 



..do... 



.. do ..4 



Lncality. 



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Whence obtained. 



Rio Blanco and Frio 1853... Lt. A. W. Whipple.. 



Rio Frio, Texas do. ..' do 



Leon river, Texaa do . 



Rio Seco, Texas [ do . 



Rio Blanco, Texas do . 



Rio Medina, Texas ; do 



Coal Creek, Ark do 



Rio Brazos 



Indianola to Nueces ... 

 do 



Delaware creek 



Eio Frio, Texas 



Rio Nueces, Texas 



Live oak creek, Texas. 

 Turkey creek, Texas.. 



Rio Leona, Texas .. 



Elm creek, Texas 



Texas 



San Juan river, N. Leon . 



Rio Sabinal, Texas 



Dry creek, Texas 



San Pedro creek, Texas . 

 Minnevilla river, Texas.. 



.do. 

 .do. 

 , do. 

 ■ do. 

 .do. 



..do . ..! Dr. G. C. Shumard . 

 .1856...' Capt. Pope 



...do. .. 

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 ...1851... 

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1853 



Nov. 1854 

 ....do... 

 ....do... 

 ....do. .. 



.do. 

 .do. 



Col. J. D. Graham. 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



...- do 



Lt. D. N. Couch... 



Major Emory 



do 



do 



do 



23&24 

 21 

 11 

 19 

 20 

 18 

 VI. 



60 



55 



110 



52 



Alcoholic . 



do... 



.... .do... 

 ... .do... 



do... 



do... 



do... 



do... 



do... 



do... 



do... 



.do. 



do. 

 .do. 

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 .do. 

 .do. 

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do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



Collected by- 



Dr. Kennerly 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



H. B. Mollhausen. 

 Dr. G.C. Shumard. 



Captain Pope 



do 



do 



John H.Clark.... 



do 



do 



do.. 



do 



do 



do 



Lieut. Couch 



Dr. Kennerly 



do 



do 



do 



POMOXIS; Rafin. 



Gen. Char. — Body very much compressed ; dorsal and ventral outlines arched. Head moderate in size. Mouth very large ; 

 lower jaw longest. Velvet-like teeth on the jaws, the vomer, and palatines, and on the base of the tongue also. Cheeks and 

 opercular apparatus scaly. Branchial apertures continuous under the throat. Dorsal and anal fins elevated ; their spinous 

 portion rising gradually Irom the anterior spine to the soft portion, without any depression. Anal spiny rays, si.x or more. 

 Insertion of ventral fins situated a little behind the base of tiie pectorals. Caudal fin either even upon its posterior margin or 

 sub-concave. Scales well developed and ciliated posteriorly. 



Syn. — Pomoxis, Rafin. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila. i, 1818, 417, and, Ichth. Ohien.s. 1820, 33. — Agass. Amer. Jour, of 

 Sc. and Arts, XVII, 1854, 298. 



The genus Pomoxis, as here circumscribed, embraces already several species. The most 

 anciently known is that described by Lacepede under the name of Labrus sparoides, specimens 

 of which having been obtained in South Carolina ; hence : 



