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Genus 461. APOMOTIS Kafinesque. 



Apomotis Kafinesque, Jour, de Physique 1819, 420 {cyanellua), 



1419. Apomotis cyanellus CRafinesque). Bed-eye; Blue-spotted Sunjlsh; Green 



Sunfish; Little Btd-eijc. 



Great Lakes re.<:;ion to Mexico; very abuudant from Ohio southwestward 



to the Rio Grande. 

 Lepomis cyandlus Rafinesque, Jour, de Physique 1819, 420, Ohio River, 



1420. Apomotis ischyrus (Jordan & Nelson). 



Upper Mississippi Valley. 



Lepiopomiis ischyrus Jordan & Nelson, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 25, 1877, Illi- 

 nois River, Illinois. 



1421. Apomotis phenax Cope & Jordan. 



Beesley Point, New Jersey. 



Apomotis phenax Cope «& Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 26, 1877, Beesley 

 Point, New Jersey; locality possibly erroneous. 



1422. Apomotis punctatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



South Carolina to Florida. 



Bryttiis punctatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 462, 1831, 

 Charleston. South Carolina. 



1423. Apomotis symmetricus (Forbes). 



Mississippi Valley; Illinois to Louisiana and Texas. 



Lepomis symmetricus Forbes, in Jordan & Gilbert. Synopsis, 473, 1883, Illiuois 

 River, Illinois. 



Genus 462. LEPOMIS Rafinesque. The ,Suvfishcs. 

 Lepomis Rafinesque, Jour, de Physique 1819, 402 (auritus). 



Subgenus LEPOMIS Raflnesque. 



1424. Lepomis auritus (Linnieus). Yellowbelly; Bedbreast Bream. 



Maine to Louisiana; abundant in all streams east of the Alleghanies. 

 Labrus auritus Linuieus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 283, 1758, Philadelphia, 



1424a. Lepomis auritus solis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Virginia to Louisiana, in coastwise streams. 



Pomotis solis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., "\'il, 468, 1831, Lake 

 Pontchartrain, Louisiana, 



1425. Lepomis miniatus Jordan. 



Mississippi Valley; southern Illinois to Louisiana and Texas. 



Lepomis miniatus Jordan, Bull, U, S. Nat, Mus,, x, 26, 1877, Tangipahoa River. 



Subgenus XENOTIS Jordan, 

 Xenotis Jordan, Proc. Ac, Nat. Sci, Phila. 1877, 76 (fallax). 



1426. Lepomis garmani Forbes, 



Lower Wabash River basin, 



Lepomis garmani Forbes, Bull. 111. Lab. Nat. Hist., vol. ii, art. 2, 135, .January, 



1885, Little Fox River at Phillipstown, and Wabash River and Drew 



Pond at Carmi, Illinois. 



1427. Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque). Long -eared Sunfish. 



Michigan to Minnesota, South Carolina, and southward to the Rio Grande. 

 Ichthelis megalotis Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 29, 1820, Kentucky, Licking, 

 and Sandy rivers, Kentucky. 



Subgenus HELIOPERCA Jordan. 



Belioperca Jordan, Ann, Lye. Nat, Hist. N, Y, 1876, 335 (palUdus). 



1428. Lepomis humilis (Girard), Bed-spotted Sunfish. 



Ohio and Kentucky to the Dakotas, Kansas, and Texas; locally abuudant, 



especially in the lower Missouri Basin, 

 Bryttus humilis Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat, Sci, Phila. 1857, 201, Sugar Loaf 



Creek, Arkansas. 



