928 FISHES — CENTRABCHID^. 



116. EuPOMOTis GiBBOSUS (Linnseus) Jordan. 



Common Sun-fish; Pumpkinseed ; Sunny. 



Perca fluviatilis gibiosa ventre luteo Catksby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, etc., iii, tab. viii, 

 1730. 



Perca gibiosa, Linnjbus, Syetema Naturae, Ed. xi, 1760, 293, (based on Catesby). 



Lepomis gibiosus, McKay, MSS. 



Spams aureas, Walbaum, ArtediPisc, 1792, 290, (based on Catesby.) 



Pomotis aureus, Gill, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 1864, 93 ; Syn. Fishes Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence and Bay of Fundy, 1865, 6.— Uhler and Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 1876, 

 113. 



Eupomotis aureus, Gill and Jordan, Field and Forest, v, 2, 1877, p. 190. — Nelson, Kept. 

 U. S. Fish Com., 1875-76, 790, 796— Gilbert, Ohio Fish Com., 1877, 80.— Jordau. 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 10, 1877, 35; Ann. N. Y. Aoad. Soi , i, 1877, 98; BuU. 

 Haj den's Geol. Surv., iv, 1878, 436; Ball. U. S. Nat. Mas., No. 12, 1878, 15; Man. 

 Vert., 1878, 244.— Goodk, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ii, 1879, 114.— Goodb and Bean, 

 Bull. Essex Inst., 1679, 18.— Bean, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 98. 



Labrus auritus, Walbacm, Artedi Piso., 1792, 243, (not of Linnaeus). — SHA\r, Zool., iv, 

 1805, p. 482.— MiTCHiLL, Mem. Fish. N. Y., 1815, 403. 



Pomotis auritus, Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., i, 1859, 261.— Putnam, Bull. M. C. Z., 

 i, 1863, 6.— Jordan, Man. Vert., 1876, 233.— Nelson, Cat. Fish. 111., 1876, 38.— Abbott, 

 Kept. U. S. Fish Com., 1875-76, 837. 



Morone macalata, Mitchill, Rept. Fishes N. Y., 1814, 19. 



Pomotis maeulatus. Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1870, 45. 



Spa/rus mocasinus, Bafinesque, Prec. des leo. Som., 1814, 19. 



Pomotis vulgaris, Cuv. et Val., iii, 1829i, 91. — CiiVibr, Regno Anim,, 111. Poiaa., 1829, pi. 

 10, f. 3. — Jardinb, Natural. Libr., i. Perches, 1835, 162. — Richardson, Fauna Bor,- 

 Amer., 1836, p. 24, pi. 76.— Stoker, Boat. Journ. Nat. Hist , ii, 300.— Kiri land, 

 Boat. Journ. Nat. Hist., iii, iv, 1841, 470. — Thompson, History of Vermont, 1842, 

 130.— DeKay, New York Fauna, Fiahea, 1842, 31.— Ayres, Boat. Journal Nat. Hiat., 

 1842, 10, 258.— Storer, Syn., 1847, 292.— Linsley, Cat. Fiahea Conn.— Agassiz, 



Lake Superior, 1850, 293. — Herbert, Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing, 1850, 200. 



Perley, Cat. Fiahea New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, 1852, 5.— Storer, History 



Fishes Mass., 1867, 12.— Gill, Tenth Ann. Rept. Smithsonian Inst., 1847, 258. 



Jackson, Proc. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist, (nest and habits). — Holbrook, Ichthy. S. C, 

 1860, 8.— Holmes, Rept. on Fishes of Maine, 1862, 71.— Nelson, Rept. U. S. Fish 

 Com. 187.5-76, 699. 



Pomxttis catesbei, Cuv. and Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., tii, 1831, 469.— Storer, Syn,, 



1846, 291.— DbKay, Fauna N. Y. Fishes, 1842, 33. 

 Pomotis ravenelUi, Cuv. and Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss,, vii, 1831, 465. — DeKay, Fauna 



N. Y., Fishes, 1842, 33— Storer, Syn., 1846, 293.— Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ii, 



1878, 225. 

 Pomotis luna, Girard, Proc. Aoad. Nat. Sdi, Phila,, Nov,, 1857, p, 201 ; U. S. Pao. R. R, 



Surv., 1858, 22. 



Description,— Body deep, very gibbons, both dorsal and ventral outlines strongly 

 curved ; depth in adult, a little more than half its length without caudal, the head a 

 little more than a third; eye large, 8 to 4| in head, about equal to flap ; mouth amall 



