44 Book of the Black Bass. 



1854. 



Grystes nuecensis Baird & GikabDj Pro. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phil, vil, 

 25, 1854. 



DiopUtes nuecensis Gieabd, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. x, Fishes, 4, 

 1858. 



Grystes nuecensis Gunthee, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. I, 252, 1859. 

 (Name only.) 



DiopUtes nuecensis Gieaed, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. ii, 3, 1859. 



DiopUtes nuecensis Vaillant & Bocourt, Miss. Sci. au Mexique, 

 1874. 



Micropterus nuecensis Vaillant & Bocouet, Miss. Sci. au Mex- 

 ique, 1883. 



1857. 

 Grystes megastoma Gaelick, Treat. Art. Prop. Fish, 108, 1857. 



1874. 

 DiopUtes trecuUi Vaillant & Bocourt, Miss. Sci. au Mex- 

 ique, 1874. (Zoologie, pt. iv, plate iv, f. 2. No descrip- 

 tion; the species since identified by its authors with 

 M. nuecensis.) 



Etymology: Salmoides, trout-like; salmon-like. 

 Habitat : Red River of the North to Florida : Virginia to Mexico ; 

 introduced eastward. 



