FISHES-PERCIDAE—DIOPLITES NUECENSIS —POMOXIS 
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of the Tennessee river. It lias, also, much greater affinities with D. fasciatus than with I). 
salmoides. 
List of specimens. 
Catalogue numbers. 
Number of spec. 
Sex and age. 
396 
2 
Adt. .. 
397 
1 
.. do. .. 
39S 
1 
.. do ... 
399 
12 
Yg—- 
400 
3 
.. do. .. 
401 
1 
.. do. .. 
402 
1 
.. do. .. 
403 
2 
Adt. .. 
371 
1 
.. do ... 
372 
12 
Yg.... 
387 
1 
388 
1 
Adt. .. 
389 
1 
390 
1 
391 
1 
392 
6 
Yg.... 
393 
4 
-. do ... 
394 
2 
395 
5 
303 
I 
Yg.... 
304 
4 
.. do ... 
305 
1 
.. do ... 
306 
1 
.. do ... 
Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Original number. 
Nature of specimen. 
Collected by— 
Rio Blanco and Frio_ 
...1853... 
Lt. A. W. Whipple.. 
23 & 24 
Alcoholic .... 
Dr. Kennedy_ 
_do . .. 
... do. 
21 
.do_ 
_do . .. 
...._do... 
11 
. do.----. 
_do . .. 
...... ..do.. 
19 
. do..._ 
_do . _. 
....do. 
20 
. do.----. 
.... do -. 
....do. 
18 
.do_ 
.do. 
_do_ 
...... ..do.. 
VI. 
. do.----. 
H. B. Mollhausen. 
Rio Brazos... 
_do . .. 
Dr. G. C. Shumard . 
.do. 
Dr. G. C. Shumard. 
Tndiannla, to Nueces. 
...1856... 
Capfc. Pope ...._ 
.do_ 
Captain Pope .... 
__do.__ _ 
...... ..do....---.. 
. do.--.-. 
Delaware creek_ 
_do . .. 
.do.. 
Rio Frio, Texas__ 
...1851... 
Col. J. D. Graham.. 
.do_ 
John H. Clark_ 
Rio Nueces, Texas__ 
_..do... 
. do..._ 
Dive oak creek, Texas_ 
_do . .. 
.... . do_ 
Turkey creek, Texas_ 
_do . .. 
.do. 
.do. 
.do. 
Rio Leona, Texas___ 
__ __do. 
. do..._ 
Elm creek, Texas. 
_do . .. 
.. __do.. 
.do.--_ 
.do. 
Texas.... 
.... do . .. 
__ do. 
. do.-_ 
.do. 
San Juan river, N. Leon . 
1853. 
Lt. D. N. Couch_ 
. do.--.-. 
Lieut. Couch. 
Rio Sabinal, Texas. 
Nov. 1854 
Major Emory. 
60 
.... . do. 
Dr. Kennedy_ 
Dry creek, Texas. 
...._do___ 
55 
do....----- 
Ran Pedro creek, Texas . 
_do . 
..do__ 
no 
__ do_ 
__ 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. Velvet-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 t’rom 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. 
Syn. — Pomoxis, Rafin. Jour. Acad. Nat. Se. 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 Lacepide under the name of Labrus sparoides, specimens 
of which having been obtained in South Carolina ; hence: 
