26 Book of the Black Bass. 



CHAPTER II. 



NOMENCLATURE AND MORPHOLOGY. 



Class PISCES. 

 Subclass TELEOSTEI. 

 Order AOANTHOPTEEI. 



SuBOEDEE EHEGNOPTEEI. 



Family CENTRAEOHID^. 



Subfamily MICROPTERIN^. 

 Genus MICEOPTBEUS Lac^pSde. 



SYNONYJIY AND REFERENCES. 



Micropterus LA.cipfc)E, Hist. Nat. des Poiss. iv, 325, 1802. (Type 

 M. dolomieu Lac.) 



iMbrus species, LAcfePEDE, Hist. Nat. des Poiss. iv, 716, 1802. 

 (L. salnioides Lac.) (Not of Linnaeus, the type Labrus 

 mixtus L. belonging to the family of Labridoe, the com- 

 mon wrasse-flsh of the coasts of Europe.) 



Bodianus species, Rafinesque, Am. Mo. Mag. and Crit. Rev. ii, 

 120, 1817. (B. achigan Raf.) (Not of Bloch, the type 

 of Bodianus, being a marine fisli of the family of Ser- 

 ranidw. ) 



CalUurus Rafinesque, Jour, de Phys. v, 88, 420, June, 1819, and 

 Ich. Ohi. 26, 1820. (Not of Agassiz, Girard, et al.) 

 (Type C punctulatus Raf.) 



Lepomis Rafinesque, Ich. Ohi. 30, 1820. (Not Lepomis Raf. 

 Jour, de Phys. ii, 50, 1819, the original type Labrus 

 auriius L. being a fresh water sunfish.) 



