Jordan and Ever ma nn. Fishes of North America. 641 



Colitis heteroclila, LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. xii, 500, 1766, Charleston, South Carolina; after 



tho Mudfish of DR. GARDEN. 



Pircilia c<ii<-la, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 452, 1801, Carolina ; after LINNAEUS. 

 Fundulus mudfish, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Pois.s., v, 37, 1803, Carolina ; after LINN^US. 

 Hydrr<j\r .iininipiim, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 378, 1803, South Carolina. 

 FHitdidit* )i>'i,'rnrlihis, GUNTHER, Cat., vi, 318, 1866 ; JORDAN <fe GILBERT, Synopsis, 336, 1883; and 



of authors generally. 



Represented northward, Maine to Virginia, by the dwarfish form 



932a. FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS MACROLEPIDOTUS (Walbaum). 

 (COMMON COIIBLER ; KILLIFISH.) 



Smaller in size than the typical keteroclitus (from South Carolina) ; the 

 fins lower, scarcely higher than in var. grandis. Longest dorsal ray 1* in 

 head ; A. 1|. Scales on top of head rather smaller, body more slender 

 and coloration generally paler; females nearly plain, the young females 

 with dark bands. Maine to Virginia; everywhere very common in brack- 

 ish waters, apparently passing gradually into the typical heteroclitus, from 

 which it is scarcely to be separated even as a slight variety, 

 large-scaled.) 



macroJepidota, WALBAUM, Artedi Piecium, HI, 11, 1792, Long Island ; after Yellow- 

 bellied Cobbler of SCHOPF, Naturf. Freunde., vin, 171, 1788. 



Colitis killifish, WALBAUM, Artedi Piscium, HI, 11, 1792, Long Island ; after Killifish of 

 SCHOPF, Naturf. Freunde, vni, 172, 1738. 



Pacilia fasciata, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 453, 1801 ; after Yellow-bellied Cobbler of 

 SCHOPF. 



Esox pisciculus, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 440, New York. 



Ewx pisculentm, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 441, New York. 



Hydrargyra nigrofasciata* LE SUEUR, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1817, 133, Newport, 

 Rhode Island. 



FumMus viridescens, DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna : Fishes, 217, 1842, New York. 



Fundulus zebra, DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna : Fishes, 218, 1842, New York. 



Fundulus pisculentm, STORER, Fishes Mass., 294, 1839; and of many American authors. 



Fundulus nigrofasciatm, STORER, Fishes Mass., 295, 1839; GUNTHER, Cat., vi, 323, 1866; JORDAN & 

 GILBERT, Synopsis, 335, 1883. 



Represented along the Gulf Coast by 



932b. FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS GRANDIS (Baird & Girard). 



Size larger than in the typical heteroclitus, the coloration brighter, the 

 pale spots on the dorsal in the male larger, the dorsal and anal fins lower. 

 Longest ray of dorsal 2 in head in males, 2 in females ; anal rays If in 

 males, 2 to 2i in females; tips of dorsal in males scarcely reaching half- 

 way to base of caudal. 



* The nominal species Ftindnlus nigrofasciatm, of which we have numerous specimens from 

 Woods Holl, Mass., seems to us the young female of Fundulus heteroclilus macrolepidotm. It is 

 thus described by Dr. Glinther: 



Fmidulm nigrofatciatus (Le Sueur): Head 3%; depth 4. D. 11; A. 9; scales 33-11. Body 

 rather short and deep; head rather long and depressed; tho snout obtuse, a slight angle being 

 formed above the eye, dorsal moderate, well back; anal short and deep; eye longer than snout 

 1% in interorbital space; 3% in head. Olivaceous above, silvery below; fins in both sexes 

 immaculate; males with 9 or 10 very distinct silvery crossbars, each about as broad as a scale; 

 females with about as many narrow black bars, which do not extend on the back or belly; scales 

 punctate. Length 2% inches. (Gunther.) Atlantic coast of United States, recorded from 

 Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 



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