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larger than first; dorsal notch rather shallow; scales smaller 

 than in M. pallidus eleven rows between lateral line and dorsal; 

 mouth smaller; anal nearly scaleless ; D. X, 13; A. HI, 11; 

 lat. 1. 70 to 80. Great lakes and streams from L. Champlain 

 S. and W.; common in New York and in most regions west of 

 the Alleghanies; introduced eastward." - (JORDAN, Manual 

 Vertebrates E. U. S. 2d ed. 236, 1878.) 



MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES (LAC.) HENSHALL. 

 THE LARGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS. 



SYNONYMY. 



1802 Labrus salmoides LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. des Poiss. IV, 

 , 716. 



Grystes salmoides AGASSIZ, Lake Superior, 295, 1850. 

 Grystes salmoides HOLBROOK, Ich. So. Car. 25, 1855, and 



2d ed. 28, 1860. 

 Grystes salmoides NORRIS, Am. Angler's Book, 99, 1864. 



(In part.) 

 Dioplites salmoides VAILLANT & BOCOURT, MSS, Miss. 



Sci. au Mexique, 1874. 

 Micropterus salmoides VAILLANT & BOCOURT, Miss. Sci. 



au Mexique: ined. 

 1820 Lepomis pallida RAFINESQUE, Ich. Ohiensis, 30. 



Micropterus pallidus JORDAN, Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. 



XI, 314, 1877. 

 Micropterus pallidus JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. IX 



and X, 1877. 

 Micropterus pallidus JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. XII, 



1878. 

 Micropterus pallidus JORDAN, Hayd. Geol. Surv. Ter. 



Bull. IV, No. 2, 435, 1878. 



