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lateral line runs along the upper fourth of the body and concurrent with the dorsal 

 outline to the extremity of the root of the dorsal fin, when it descends to the median 

 plane. 



Color. See Specific Characters. 



Dimensions. The length from the extremity of the opercle to the tip of the tail is 

 equal to three heads ; the greatest elevation, without the dorsal fin, to one and a half 

 heads ; total length two inches and three quarters. 



Geographical Distribution. S. Carolina, Georgia, and at Dr. Edmund Ravenel's 

 plantation, on Cooper River. 



Genus CALLIURUS, Rafinesque. 



Characters. Body oval, rather elongated, not compressed above, spinous dorsal 

 long, low, with a slight depression between it and the soft portion, which is shorter 

 though higher ; anal less in size than the dorsal, and with three spines ; mouth large ; 

 lower jaw, longer than the upper; teeth on the intermaxillary, vomer, palatine bones 

 .and tongue. 



Calliurus floridensis. 



Plate VI. Fig. 1. 



Specific Characters. Body elongated compressed ; dusky above, yellowish below, 

 with black spots along the sides ; anal and caudal fins dusky ; dorsal, with a reddish 

 brown spot at its posterior inferior margin. D. 10-10. P. 14. V. 1-5. A. 3-10. 

 C. 17. 



Description. This fish approaches in its general form the Pomotis vulgaris, though 

 it is longer and less elevated, and is thicker, especially in front of the dorsal fin. 

 The head is large, and though narrow between the eyes has a snout full and rounded. 

 The eye is large and is placed one diameter of its orbit from the snout, and rather 

 more than two diameters from the extremity of the opercle, with its superior margin 

 at the facial line, and its inferior rather above the middle plane of the head. The 

 posterior nostril is oval, near the eye and about its median plane ; the anterior is 

 smaller, round and midway between the eye and the snout. 



The pre-opercle is rounded at the angle, with its ascending border nearly vertical. 

 The opercle is triangular, with its basis in front, its apex behind, rounded and furnished 

 with a very short fleshy appendix. 



The sub-opercle is of nearly the same breadth throughout ; the inter-opercle is 



broad, and both are covered with large scales, but the cheeks and opercles have small 



scales, and the top of the head is smooth. The mouth is large ; the posterior ex- 



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