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Fig. 63. Bluegill; Blue Sunfish. 



Lepomis incisor (C. and V.) (After Forbes and Richardson.) 



without pale margin; dorsal with a black blotch on base of its last 

 rays. 



Length 5 to 8 inches. 



This fish ranges from the Great Lake Region to Florida and Mexico. 



Dead River, Beach, Illinois; Bull Creek, Beach, Illinois; Lagoon, 

 Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois; Des Plaines River, Chicago, Illinois; 

 Des Plaines River, Berwyn, Illinois; Chicago River, Edgebrook, 

 Illinois; Hickory Creek, Marley, Illinois; Wolf Lake, Roby, Indiana; 

 Lake George, Indiana; Lagoon, Buffington, Indiana; Calumet River, 

 Clark, Indiana; Deep River, Liverpool, Indiana. 



Genus Eupoiiiotis Gill and Jordan. 



Pumpkin-seed Sunfish. 



Body short, compressed; mouth small; no supplemental maxil- 

 lary; lower pharyngeals deep and broad, the teeth bluntly rounded 

 or paved; gill rakers short; fins long; a red roundish spot on lower 

 posterior angle of opercle. 



