PISHES-PERCIDAE-DIOPLITES NUECENS1S —POMOXIS 
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of the Tennessee river. It has, also, much greater affinities with D. fasciatus than with D. 
salmoides. 
List of specimens. 
Catalogue numbers, j 
Number of spec. 
Sex and age. 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Original number. 
Nature of specimen. 
Collected by— 
396 
2 
Adt. .. 
Rio Blanco and Frio. 
...1853... 
Lt. A. W. Whipple.. 
23 &24 
Alcoholic .... 
Dr. Kennedy_ 
397 
1 
.. do. .. 
21 
.do. 
398 
1 
do . ' 
__do_ 
11 
.... .do...... 
...... do......... 
399 
12 
Yg...? 
Rio Seco, Texas__ 
19 
.do. 
_... do. 
400 
3 
.. do. .. 
Rio Blanco, Texas. 
....do ... 
.do. 
20 
.do. 
.do. 
401 
1 
.. do. .. 
Rio Medina, Texas_ 
....do -.. 
.do. 
18 
.do. 
.do. 
402 
1 
.. do. .. 
Coal Creek, Ark. 
_do ... 
.do. 
VI. 
. do...... 
H. B. Mollhausen. 
403 
2 
Adt. .. 
Rio Brazos. 
....do . .. 
Dr. G. C. Shumard . 
.do. 
Dr. G. C. Shumard. 
371 
1 
.. do... 
Indianola to Nueces..... 
...1856... 
Capt. Pope_ 
.do. 
Captain Pope .... 
372 
12 
Yg.. 
__do__ 
_ do__ 
-- do 
_do_ 
387 
] 
Delaware creek ____ 
_do . .. 
.do. 
388 
1 
Adt... 
Rio Frio, Texas__ 
...1851... 
Col. J. D. Graham.. 
John H. Clark.... 
389 
1 
Rio Nueces, Texas..._ 
.. do . .. 
.do. 
.do. 
390 
1 
Live-oak creek, Texas... 
_do. .. 
.do. 
391 
1 
Turkey creek, Texas.... 
392 
6 
Yg.... 
Rio Leona, Texas__ 
...do. . 
.do. 
do_ 
.do. 
393 
4 
.. do_ 
Elm creek, Texas __ 
_do.. 
394 
2 
Texas_.....__ 
do - 
__ do_ 
. do . 
_do_ 
395 
5 
San Juan river, N. Leon . 
1853. 
Lt. I). N. Couch-_ 
__ do_ 
Lieut. Couch_ 
1^03 
] 
Yg .... 
Rio Sabinal, Texas_ 
Nov. 1854 
Major Emory 
60 
.mmm - dO- - - . . . 
Dr. Kennedy .... 
5^04 
4 
.. do... 
Dry creek, Texas.. 
_do_ 
__do.. 
55 
__ do_ 
$■$05 
1 
..do_ 
San Pedro creek, Texas . 
_do . .. 
.do. 
110 
_do. 
f$06 
1 
.. do... 
Minnevilla river, Texas.. 
....do . .. 
.do. 
52 
.do. 
.do. 
POMOXIS, Rafin. 
Gen. Char. —Body very much compressed ; dorsal and ventral outlines arched. Head moderate in size. Mouth very large ; 
lower jaw longest. Yelvet-like teeth on the jaws, the vomer, and palatines, and on the base of the tongue also. Cheeks and 
opercular apparatus scaly. Branchial apertures continuous under the throat. Dorsal and anal fins elevated; their spinous 
portion rising gradually from the anterior spine to the soft portion, without any depression. Anal spiny rays, six or more. 
Insertion of ventral fins situated a little behind the base of the pectorals. Caudal fin either even upon its posterior margin or 
sub-concave. Scales well developed and ciliated posteriorly. 
ISyn. — Pomoxis, Rafin. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sg. Phila. i, 1818, 417, and, Ichth. Ohiens. 1820, 33.— Agass. Amer. Jour, of 
Sc. and Arts, XVII, 1854, 298. 
The genus Pomoxis, as here circumscribed, embraces already several species. The most 
anciently known is that described by Lacepsde under the name of Labrus sjoaroides , specimens 
of which having been obtained in South Carolina ; hence : 
