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fully united, with coarse, blunt, paved teeth, as in Pogonias; preopercle 

 slightly serrate; dorsal spines strong and high, with a close-fitting scaly 

 sheath at base, the 2 dorsals somewhat connected; second anal spine 

 very strong ; caudal double truncate ; air bladder very large, simple, with 

 no appendages. Pyloric c.eca 7; vertebra 10 + 14 = 24. Fresh waters of 

 the United States; large, coarse fishes, feeding chiefly on Crustacea and 

 mollusks. The genus is apparently allied to Pogonias, and both may be 

 descended from allies of Roncador, which is intermediate between them 

 and Scicena. (cbr/l6t;, simple or single; r&ros, back.) 



1871. APLODINOTUS GRUNMENS, Eafinesque. 



(FRESH- WATER DRUM; GASPERGOU; THUNDER-PUMPER; LAKE SHEEPSHEAD ; CROAKER; 

 BUBBLER; WHITE PERCH.) 



Head 3; depth 2|; snout 4-J- in head. D. X, 30; A. II, 7; scales 9-55-13. 

 Body oblong ; back much elevated and compressed ; profile long and steep, 

 straightish; head slightly compressed; mouth moderate, subinferior, low; 

 the maxillary reaching past middle of eye, 3 in head; eye moderate; teeth 

 in villiform bands, the outer above scarcely enlarged ; lower pharyngeals 

 completely united, the teeth less blunt than in Pogonias ; gill rakers short, 

 thickish, 6+14; preopercle obscurely serrated; snout bluutish, longer 

 than eye; dorsal spines strong and high; second spine highest, 2^ in head, 

 a scaly sheath at the base of spines; the 2 dorsals connected; second anal 

 spine very large, more than the length of the head ; caudal double trun- 

 cate; scales rather thin and deep, the series somewhat oblique; scales on 

 breast rather large. Color grayish silvery, dusky above, sometimes very 

 dark; back sometimes with oblique dusky streaks along the rows of scales. 

 Great Lakes to Texas; abundant in all lakes and large streams west of 

 the Alleghanies and east of the plains, reaching a weight of 50 to 60 

 pounds. Its flesh is not of high quality, and is often tough and ill- 

 flavored and with a rank odor, especially in the Lakes, where it is not 

 often eaten. In Texas and Louisiana it holds a high rank as a food-fish, 

 the quality improving southward, (grunniens, grunting.) 



Aplodinotus grunniens, KAFINESQUE, Journ. de Phys. 1819, 88, Ohio River. 



Scicena oscula, LESUEUR, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1822, 252, pi. 13, Lake Ontario. 



Scicena grisea, LESUEUR, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1822, 254, Ohio Kiver at Pittsburg, Pa. 



(Coll. LeSueur). 

 Corvina richardsoni, CUVIER&. VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 100, 1830, Lake Huron; 



based on an abnormal specimen with but 18 developed rays in 1 he second dorsal ; GiJN- 



THER, Cat. Fish., n, 298, 1860. 



Amblodon concinnus, AGASSIZ, Arner. Jour. Sci. Arts, xvn, 1854, 307, Tennessee River. 

 Amblodon lineatus, AGASSIZ, Arner. Jour. Sci. Arts, xvn, 1854, 307, Osage River. 

 Amblodon neglectus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1858, 167, Rio Grande ; GIRARD, 



TJ. S. and Mex. Bound. Survey, 12, pi. 5, figs. 6-10, 1859. 

 Amblodon grunniens, RAFINESQUE, Ichth. Ohiensis, 24, 1820; GIRARD, TJ. S. Pac. 11. Jl. 



Survey, 96, pi. 23, 1858. 

 Haploidonotus grunniens, G-ILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 104 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, 



Synopsis, 567, 1883. 



Corvina oscula, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 98, 1830. 

 Corvina oscula, GUNTHER, Cat. Fish., n, 297, 1860. 

 Corvina (Amblodon) neglecta, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Notizen, vi, 38, 1867. 



