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MISNOMERS OF WELL-KNOWN 

 FISHES 



That some of the best known game 

 fishes and food fishes are mis- 

 named, is indicated in the brief sum- 

 mary of contradictory names thus 

 given by an ichthyologist : The black 

 bass is not a bass it is a sunfish. 

 The white perch is not a perch it is 

 a bass. The rock bass is not a bass- 

 it is a sunfish. The wall-eyed pike or 

 pike-perch is not a pike it is a perch. 

 The true fresh water basses that are 

 angled for and which are strictly 

 members of the bass family ser- 

 ranidae are only three in number 

 the white bass, Roccus chrysops ; the 

 yellow bass, Morone interupta; and 

 the white perch, Morone Americana. 



