112 BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



Micropterus nigricans GILL, Pro. Am. Asso. Adv. Sci. 



B. 70, 1873. 

 Micropterus nigricans JORDAN, Ind. GeoJ. Surv. 214, 



1874. 

 Micropterus nigricans JORDAN, Mair. Vert. E. IT. S. 229, 



1876. 

 Micropterus nigricans HALLOCK, Sportsman's Gazetteer, 



273, 1877. (In part.) 

 1854 Grystes nobilis AGASSIZ, Am. Jour. Sci. Art, XVII, 



298. 

 Grystes nobilis PUTNAM, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. I, 6, 



1863. (Name only.) 

 1854 Grystes nuecemis BAIRD & GIRARD, Pro. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phil. VII, 25. 

 Dioplites nuecensis GIRARD, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. X, 



Fishes, 4, 1858. 

 Grystes nuecemis GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. I, 



252, 1859. (Name only.) 

 Dioplites nuecenms GIRARD, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. II, 



3, 1859. 

 Dioplites nuecensis VAILLANT & BOCOURT, MSS. Miss. 



Sci. au Mexique, 1874. 

 Micropterus nuecensis VAILLANT & BOCOURT, Miss. Sci. 



au Mexique : ined. 

 1857 Grystes megastoma GARLICK, Treat. Art. Prop. Fish, 108, 



1857. 

 1874 Dioplites treculii VAILLANT & BOCOURT, MSS. Miss. Sci. 



au Mexique, 1874. (Zoologie, pt. IV, plate IV, f. 2. 



No description; the species since identified by its 



authors with M. nuecensis.) 



ETYMOLOGY : Salmoides, trout-like ; salrnon-like. 

 HABITAT : Red River of the North to Florida ; Virginia 

 to Mexico; introduced eastward. 



