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)lemental maxillary lost or very much reduced, and tlie 

 )percular flap always with an orange patch on its lower 

 )osterior part. Gill rakers various, usually short. The reteu- 

 ion of this genus is possibly justified by convenience, but 

 leither the longer pectorals nor the blunt pharyngeals separate 

 t sharply from L e p o m i s. 



240 Eupomotis gibbosus (Linnaeus) 



Sunfish; Pumpkin Seed 



*erca gibhosa Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. X, I, 292, 1758, Carolina. 



^parus aureus Walbaum, Artedi. Gen. Plsc. 290, 1792, lakes of. New York. 



Uorone maculata Mitchill, Report in Part, 19, 1814. 



^oniotis vulgaris Cuvier Sc Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Ill, 91, 1829, 



Lake Huron,* New York, Virginia; and Carolina; De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, 



Fishes, 31, pi. 51, fig. 1G6, 1M2; Holbrook, Ichth. S. C. 6, pi. 1, fig. 2, 



1856. 

 ^omotis auritns Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 261, 1859. 

 jcpomis gibhosns Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 482, 1883; 



Meek, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci. IV, 313, 1888; Bean, Fishes, Penna. 115, pi. 



32, fig. 65, 1893. 

 '!upomotis aureus Mather, App. 12th Kept. Adirondack Surv. N. Y. 7, 



1886. 

 ^jit/pomotis gihhosvs Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1009, 



1896, pi. CLXI, fig. 429, 1900; Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 364, 



1897; Mearns, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. X, 320, 1898; Eugene Smith, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y. 1897, 35, 1898; Bean, 52d Ann. Kept. N. Y. State 



Mus. 104, 1900. 



The body of the common sunfish is nearly ovate, its depth 

 >ne half the total length without caudal; its thickness one third 

 f the depth. The caudal peduncle is short and compressed, 

 ts least depth less than the thickness of the body. The head 

 s moderately large, one third of the total length without 

 :audal, its width one half its length. The snout is short and 

 lepressed, its length four fifths of the diameter of the eye, 

 vhich is one fourth as long as the head. The interorbital space 

 s nearly flat, its width one and one half times the diameter of 

 he eye. The mouth is small and oblique; the maxilla not much 

 (Xpanded behind and reaching to below the front of the eye. 

 Scales on the cheeks in four rows. The opercular spot is short, 

 ess than two thirds the diameter of the eye, and has a whitish 

 nargin behind. The gill rakers are very short, moderately 

 tout, 10 or 11 developed on the first arch, the longest less than 



