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FISHES OF ILLINOIS 



pond, a pond near Hawthorne, and the Little Wabash River in 

 White county. Elsewhere it is reported from the Mississippi 

 Valley southward as far as New Orleans, and Houston, Texas. 

 Jordan and Evermann say that it is not infrequent in the lower 

 Mississippi Valley, and that in Texas it is a common pan-fish. 



FIG. 61 



LEPOMIS EURYORUS McKAY 



McKay, 1881, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 89. 



J. & G., 481; M. V., 119; B., I, 24 (? Lepomis auritus [part]); J. & E., I, 1008 

 (Eupomotis); R., 32. 



Length 6 to 8 inches; body rather robust and somewhat elongate; depth 

 2 to 2.3 in length. Color in life not very well known; in spirits dusky olive 

 mottled with darker, the general appearance very much as in E. gibbosus-, 

 fin-membranes dusky, darker tessellations behind on soft dorsal and anal 

 and near base of caudal; opercular spot black, the margin paler, with some 

 red or coppery behind in life. Head 2.6 to 2.9 in length; eye 3.8 to 4.3 in 

 head; mouth large, oblique, maxillary reaching considerably past front of 

 orbit, 2.6 to 2.9 in head; jaws about equal; supplemental maxillary well 

 developed; teeth on vomers and palatines; lower pharyngeals narrow, but 

 strong, teeth conical, heavy and bluntly pointed; opercle produced backward, 

 sharply rounded posteriorly, the margin wide; gill-rakers well developed, 

 the longest ^ diameter of eye, rather stiff and rough. Dorsal X, 11 or 12; 

 the spines low, slightly longer than from snout to eye in young specimens, 

 2.2 to 2.7 in head; anal III, 9 or 10; pectorals short, 1.3 to 1.4 in head; ven- 

 trals reaching slightly past vent. Scales 6 or 7, 43-45, 14 or 15; those on 

 cheeks small, in 6 to 8 rows. 



One of the rarest of our sunfishes, and known in this state 

 only by reason of two young specimens taken by us in Crooked 

 creek, near La Harpe, Hancock county, in 1900. It was origi- 

 nally described from the lower part of Lake Huron. It has been 

 taken sparingly in northern Indiana and Ohio, in Minnesota, 



