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ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF APLODINOTUS. 



a. Body oblong; back much elevated and compressed: depth 2£ in length ; head 3£; 

 profile long and steep, straightish ; head slightly compressed ; mouth moderate, 

 subinferior, low ; the maxillary reaching past middle of eye, 3 in head ; teeth in 

 villiform bands, the outer above scarcely enlarged; lower pharyngeals completely 

 united; the teeth less blunt than in Pogonias; gill-rakers short, tbickish, 6+14 ; 

 preopercle obscurely serrated ; snout bluntish, longer than eye, 4 J in head ; dorsal 

 spines strong and high ; second spine highest, 2£ in head ; a scaly sheath at the 

 base of spines ; the two dorsals connected ; second anal spine very large, more 

 than half the lengtb of the head ; caudal double truncate ; scales rather thin and 

 deep, the series somewhat oblique ; scales on breast rather large ; color grayish 

 silvery, dusky above, sometimes very dark; back sometimes with oblique dusky 

 streaks along the rows of scales. D. X, 30; A. II, 7; scales 9-55-13. 



Grunniens, 108. 



108. APLGDINOTUS GRUNNIENS. 



(The Fresh water Drum, Gaspergou, Thunder-pumper, Sheepsiiead, Croaker, 



Bubbler, White Perch.) 



[Plate XII.] 



Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, Journ. de Phys., 1819, 88 (Ohio R.). Graham, Pre- 

 liminary List Kansas Fishes, 77, 1S84 (Kansas River). Jordan, Cat. Fish. 

 North America, 93, 1885 (name only). 



Amblodon grunniens Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis,24, lS20(OhioR.). Agassiz, Am. Journ. 

 Sci. and Arts, 1854 (Tennessee R. ). Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Survey, 96, plate 

 23, 1859 (St. Louis; Arkansas R. ; Poteau R. ; Milk R.). 



Haploidonotus grunniens Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 104. Jordan, Fishes 

 of Upper Georgia, 319, 1876 (French Broad R. ; Cumberland R. ). Jordan, Man. 

 Vert.,ed. i, 241, 1876. Nelson, Fishes Illinois, 44, 1876 (Lake Michigan). Jor- 

 dan, Cat. Fish. Illinois, 50, 1878 (La Salle ; Peoria). Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1880, 94 (Sandusky, O. ; Cincinnati, O. ; Detroit, Mich. ; An Sable Riv., Mich.). 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North America, 567, 1883. Jordan, Ohio Geol. 

 Survey, iv, 983, 1883 (Ohio R. ; Great Lakes). Forbes, Catalogue Fish. Illinois, 

 62, 1884 (Lake Michigan; Illinois R., Ohio R.). Goode, Hist. Aquat. Anim., 

 370, plate 123, 1884. 



Seicena oscula Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1822, 252, plate 13. Kirtlaud, 

 Rept. Zool. Ohio, 168, 192, 1838 (Ohio). 



Corvina oscula Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 98, 1836 (copied). Richardson, Faun. 

 Bor. Amor., iii, 68, 1836. Kirtlaud, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iii, 350, plate 6, 

 fig. 3, 1840. DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 73, plate 21, fig. 63, 1842 (New 

 York). Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 319, 1846 (copied). Gunther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., ii, 297, 1860 (Ohio Canal; Lake Pontchartrain). 



Seicena grisea Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1822, 254. 



Corvina grisea DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 76, 1842 (New York). 



Corvina richardsoni Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 100 (Lake Huron). Richardson, 

 Faun. Bor. Amer., 64, 77, 1836. DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 76, plate 20, 

 fig. 55, 1842. Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 320, 1846 (copied). Gunther, Cat. 

 Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 298, 1860 (copied). 



Haploidonotus richardsoni Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 105 (name only). 



Eutycheliihus richardsoni Jordan, Man. .Vert., ed. i, 242, 1876 (copied). 



Amblodon conoinnus Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, 1854, 307 (Tennessee R.). 



Haploidonotus" concinnus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 104 (name only). 

 Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. i, 242, 1876 (copied). 



