S82 
LONGER SUNFISH. 
not round, but pointed, the rays fifteen; caudal fin broad (or 
long,) not quite the whole depth of the body, an inch and a 
half, with eighteen rays; the anal and dorsal fins measure six 
inches, the former with eighteen rays, the latter seventeen. 
I he colour had faded, hut appears to have been dark, with a 
blue tinge above; white on the sides and below. 
In the figure of Schneider, PI. 97, and Cuvier’s definition, 
the skin is represented as hard, and divided into small six- 
angled compartments, of which Donovan’s figure shews also 
some faint marks; but I did not discern them in the present 
instance. This species cannot be confounded with the kindred 
Short Sunfish, from which it differs not only in its relative 
dimensions, but in the position of the eye, which is higher 
m the head, in the shape of the pectoral fin, and also in°the 
rad, which falls short of the depth of the body. But it is 
ijaid to attain an equal size with that fish. 
