GENUS CH^NOBRYTTUS GILL 



This genus has the general form and dentition of Amhlo- 

 plites, with the convex opercle, lo dorsal and 3 anal spines of 

 Lepoinis. 



The single species is the warmouth, mud sunfish, or Indian 

 fish, C. giilosus. The warmouth is found in the eastern United 

 States from the Great Lakes south to Georgia and Texas and 

 west to Iowa and Kansas, chiefly west of the AUeghanies. It 

 is another of those sunflshes which prefer the bayous, sluggish 

 lowland streams, and shallow, mud-bottomed ponds and lakes. 

 It is abundant in the more shallow lakes in Indiana, Michigan 

 and Wisconsin, and in the ponds and bayous of the South. 



It reaches a length of about 10 inches and is not a food or 

 game-fish of much importance. At times it will take the hook 

 pretty freely and will fight fairly well, somewhat after the manner 

 of the rock bass. It will take a live minnow, angleworm, white 

 grub, grasshopper or piece of clam or fish. On account of its 

 usually inhabiting water with muddy bottom its flesh is apt to 

 taste of the mud. 



Body shaped much like that of the rock bass; head and 

 mouth large, maxillary reaching posterior line of eye; dorsal spines 

 low, the longest equal to distance from tip of snout to middle of 

 eye; pectoral not nearly reaching anal fin; ventrals barely reach- 

 ing vent. Colour, dark olive-green, or sometimes rich brick-red 

 and brassy, clouded with darker, usually with red, blue and 

 brassy; a dusky spot on each scale; ventral fins mottled with 

 dusky; a faint spot on last rays of dorsal bordered by paler; 3 

 oblique dusky or reddish bars radiating from eye; belly yellowish 

 or brassy. 



GENUS APOMOTIS RAFINESQUE 



This genus is very close to Lepomis, from which it difTers 

 only in the development of the supplemental maxillary bone 

 which is rudimentary or wanting in Lepomis; the mouth is 

 larger in Apomotis, the lower pharyngeals narrow, with acute 



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