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Eastern United States west of the Alleghanies. Introduced 

 into Greenwood Lake, Passaic River and other waters. The 

 young are pale or yellowish with dark bars, but do not appear 

 to enter the smaller streams as much as the other sun-fishes. 



Acantharchus pomotis {Bd.). 

 Mud Sun-fish. 



Body oblong, mouth large. Color dark green or olive with 

 three or more faint, dusky stripes on sides, cheeks with oblique 

 bands, fins plain. Caudal convex. D. XI, 10; A. V, 10. 

 Scales 6-42-12. Length 6 inches. 



Atlantic coast streams. This fish I have found in the upper 

 Hackensack valley. Baird collected it in South Jersey and in 

 Rockland County, N. Y. Abbott mentions it from Mercer 

 Count} 7 , N. J. It perhaps may be found on Long Island. In 

 habits it is shy and seclusive, a nocturnal fish. 



Enneacanthus obesus {Bd.). 



Spotted-fin Sun-fish ; Rock Sun-fish. 



Body deep and short, opercular spot large. Olivaceous with 

 5 or more dark cross-bars, spots purplish, golden or pearl} 7 , 

 dark bar below eye. Vertical fins large with light spots. Second 

 dorsal and anal sometimes ruddy with black line edge. D. IX, 

 10; A. Ill, 10. Scales 4-32-10. Length Sj4 to 4 inches. 



Coastwise from Massachusetts to Florida. First found by 

 Baird 1 near Boston, Mass. Girard and Storer also mention it 

 from Eastern Massachusetts. I have found no record from 

 any other place in New England or from Long Island of this 

 Carolinian species. In our vicinity it inhabits the entire 

 Hackensack valley, prefering quiet, weedy places. For the 

 aquarium it is the most desirable of all the sun-fishes, as well 

 on account of its hardiness as of its harmless nature. 



Lepomis auritus (L.). 



Long-eared Sun- fish; Yellow Belly. 



Body somewhat elongate. Dorsal spines low. Opercular 



flap, small in young, very long and narrow in adult, black. 



Color olive with blue spots, lower spots and fins red or ruddy; 



1 S. F. Baird, " List of Fishes from Beeseley's Point, N. J., and from 

 Long Island, etc." in 9th Annual Report of Smithsonian Inst., 1855. 



