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This is a small species, not much larger than the banded sun- 

 fish. It is a handsome fish, but has no importance for food. 



Genus apomotis Rafinesque 

 This genus is very close to L e p o m i s, from which it differs 

 only in the development of the supplementary maxillary bone, 

 which becomes rudimentary or wanting in the adult of L e - 

 p m i s. The mouth is largest in the species in which this 

 bone is best developed. Lower pharyngeals narrow, with acute 

 teeth; gill rakers well developed, long and stiff; pectoral blunt- 

 ish, shorter than head; scales moderate, 43 to 50. Species 

 widely distributed in American waters, similar in habit to the 

 species of L e p o m i s. 



237 Apomotis cyanellus (Rafinesque) 

 Green Sunfish; Redeye 



Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, Jour, de Phys. 420, 1819, Ohio River; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 473, 1883; Bean, Fishes 



Penna. 110, pi. 81, fig. 61, 1898; Meek, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci. IV, 313, 



1888; Evermann & Kendall, Bull. U. S. F. C. XII, 111, 1894. 

 Pomotis longulus Baird & Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 391, 1853, 



Otter Creek, Arliansas; Marcy's Expl. Red River, 245, pi. 12. 

 Bryttus longulus Baird & Girard, 1. c. 25, 1854; Gunthek, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus. I, 259, 1859. 

 Calliuriis longulus Girard, U. S. Pacif. R. R. Exp. Fishes, 16, pi. 5, figs. 



5-8, pi. 6, figs. 5-8, 1858; Rept. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Ichth. 5, pi. IV, 



figs. 1-4, 1859. 

 CalUurus formosns Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sol. Phila. 200, 1857, Arkansas; 



U. S. Pacif. R. R. Exp. Fishes, 14, pi. 5, figs. 1-4, 1858. 

 Apomotis cyanellus Rafinesque, Jour, de Phys. Paris, 420, 1819; Botjlenger, 



Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 21, 1896; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. 



Nat. Mus. 996, 1896. 



The green sunfish has an oblong body, its greatest depth, at 

 the ventrals, equal to three sevenths of the total length without 

 the caudal, and its thickness three eighths of its depth. The 

 least depth of the caudal peduncle equals four fifths of its 

 length, and about one third of greatest body depth. The head 

 is one third of total length without the caudal, its width nearly 

 one half its length. The snout is moderately pointed, and as 

 long as the eye, which is two ninths as long as the head. The 

 interorbital space is nearly flat, its width a little greater than 

 the length of the eye. The nape is moderately arched. The 



