SHINEE. 



75 Ldxilus cornutus (Mitch.) Jordan. 



853 



Shiner; Red-fin; Rougli-head. 



Cyprintis cornutus, Mitchii-I., Am. Monthly Mag. and Crit. Eev., 1817, 293 (brief men- 

 tion) ; Am. Monthly Mag., 1818, 324 (description). 

 Leuciaaas cornutue, Stoker, Boat, Jonrn. Nat. Hist., ix, 1822, 162; Synopsis, 1840, 409. — 



DeKay, Fishes N. Y., 1842, 207.— Gunther, Cat. Fishes, vii, 1868, 249. 

 Sypi^lepia cornutus, Storbr, Fishes Mass., 1855, 284. — Cope, Proo. Phila. Acad.Soi., 1864, 



279.— Putnam, Bnlletin M. C. Z., 1863, 7. 

 Plargyrus cornutus, Girard, Proc. Phila. Acad. Sol., 1856, 196. 

 Bypailepis cornutus, Cope, Cyp. Penn., 1866, 372 ; Proe Phila. Acad, Sei., 1867, 158 ; Journal 



Phila. Acad. Sci., 1868, 292.— Jordan, Ind. Geol. Snrv., 1874, 223.— Uhlbr and 



Lugger, Fishes of Md., 1876, 148, and of late American writers. 

 Sypsilepis cornutus, vars gibbus, frontalis, cerasinus, cornutus, cyaneus, COPEJ Proo. Phila. 



Acad. Sci., 1867, 167. 

 Luxilus cornutus, Rafineeque, MSS. Fishes of the Snsquehanna. — Jordan, Bull. Bnff. Nat. 



Hist. Soc, 1676, 94 ; Manual Vert., 1876, 2fc6 ; 2d Ed., 1678, 283, and elsewherpi.- 



Nelson, Ball Ills. Mus. Nat Hist., 1877. 

 Cyprinus megalops, Eafinesquk, Am. Monthly Mag., 1818, 121 (has probably priority of 



description). 

 Cyprinus melanurus, Rafikesque, 1. o , 1818, 121. 

 Luxilus chrysocephalus, Rafinesque, Ich. Oh,, 1820, 48. 

 Semotilua deplemia, Kirtland, Rept. Zool. Ohio, 1838, 1C8 (not of Raf.). 

 Leuciscus diplemia, Kirtland, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., v, 1840, 276. — Storer, Synopsis, 411. 

 Argyreus rubripinnis, Heckel, Rnsseger's Reisen, 1843, 1040. 



Leuciscus gibbosus, Stoker, Proc. Bost. Soo. Nat. Hist., July, 1845; Synopsis, 184C, 418. 

 Eypsolepis gibbosus, Agassiz, Amer. Jonrn. Sci. Arts, 1854, 358. 

 Plargyrus gibbosus, Girard, Proc. Phila. Acad. Sci., 1856, 191. 

 Leuciscus plagyrus, Kirtland, Bost. Jonrn. Nat. Hist., v, 1815, 26. 

 Leuciscus plargyrus, Storer, Synopsis, 1846, 410. 

 Leuciscus frontalis, Agassiz, Lake Superior, 1850, 368. 

 ffypailepis frontalis, Agassiz, Am. Jonrn. Sei. Arts, 1854, 359. — Putnam, Bull. M. C. Z., 



1863, 7. 

 Plargyrus frontalis, Girard, 1. o. 

 Leuciscus gracilis, Agassiz, Lake Superior, 1850, 370. 

 Plargyrus gracilis, Girard, 1. o. 



Hypsilepia gracilis. Cope, Proo. Phila. Acad. Sci., 1867, 157. 

 Plargyrus iypicus, Girard, 1. c, 195. 

 Plargyrus argentatus, Girard, 1. c, 196. 



Plargyrus bowmani, Girard, 1. c, 186, and Pac. R. R. Surv., x, 263, 1858. 

 Bypsilepix cbeaus, Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad. Soi., 1867, 157 (not L. obesus, Storer, fide 



Agassiz). 



Description. — Body elongate, compressed in the young, in the adult short, compressed, 

 with the anterior dorsal much swollen atd gibbous; head rather heavy, compressed, 

 rounded between the eyes, the snout blnntish, moderate, nearly horizontal, the jaws 

 nearly equal, the lower somewhat inclined ; eye moderate, four to five in head ; max- 

 illary scarcely reaching front of eye ; the premaxillaries below the level of the eye ; 

 scales always deeper than Jong on the flanks, becoming extremely eo in the adults ; 



