SHINER. 853 
75 Luxitus cornutus (Mitch.) Jordan. 
Shiner; Red-fin; Rough-head. 
Ouse cornutus, MITCHILL, Am. Monthly Mag. and Crit. Rev., 1817, 298 (brief men- 
tion); Am. Monthly Mag., 1818, 324 (description). 
Leuciscus cornutus, STORER, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., ix, 1822, 182; Synopsis, 1840, 409.— 
- DreKay, Fishes N. Y., 1842, 207.—GuNnrHer, Cat. Fishes, vii, 1868, 249. 
Hypsolepis cornutus, STORER, Fishes Mass., 1855, 284.—Copr, Proc. Phila. Acad. Sei., 1864, _ 
279.— PUTNAM, Bulletin M. C. Z., 1863, 7. 
Plargyrus cornutus, GIRARD, Proc. Phila. Acad. Sci., 1856, 196. 
Hypsilepis cornutus, Cope, Cyp. Penn., 1866, 372; Proc. Phila. Acad. Sei., 1867, 158; Journal 
Phila. Acad. Sci., 1868, 292.—Jorpan, Ind. Geol. Surv., 1874, 223.—UHLER and 
LuGGER, Fishes of Md., 1876, 148, and of late American writers. 
Hypsilepis cornutus, vars gibbus, frontalis, cerasinus, cornutus, cyaneus, Core, Proc. Phila. | 
Acad. Sci., 1867, 167. 
Luxilus cornutug, RA¥INESQUE, MSS. Fishes of the Susquehanna.— JORDAN, Ball. Buff. Nat. 
Hist. Soc., 1876, 94; Manual Vert., 1876, 2°6; 2d Ed., 1878, 283, and elsewhere.— 
NELSON, Bull Ills. Mus. Nat Hist., 1877. 
Cyprinus megalops, RAFINESQUE, Am. Monthly Mag., 1818, 121 (has probably priority of 
description). bul t : 
Cyprinus melanurus, RAFINESQUE, 1. c , 1818, 121. : 
Luaxilus chrysocephalus, RAFINESQUE, Ich. Oh., 1820, 48. 
Semotilus deplemia, KIRTLAND, Rept. Zool. Ohio, 1838, 168 (not of Raf.). 
Leuciscus diplemia, KIRTLAND, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., v, 1846, 276 —StTorEr, Synopsie, 4it. 
Argyreus rubripienis, HECKEL, Russeger’s Reisen, 1843, 1040. 
Leuciscus gibbosus, STORER, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., July, 1845; Synopsis, 1846, 418. 
Hypsolepis gibbosus, AGAssiz, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, 1854, 358. 
Plargyrus gibbosus, GIRARD, Proc. Phila. Acad. Sci., 1856, 191. 
Leuciscus plagyrus, KIRTLAND, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., v, 1815, 26. 
Leuciscus plargyrus, STORER, Synopsis, 1846, 410. 
Leuciseus frontalie, AGASsizZ, Lake Superior, 1850, 368. 
Hypsilepis frontalis, AGassiz, Am. Journ. Sei. Arts, 1854, 359 —PuTNaM, Ball. M. C. Z., 
1863, 7. 
Plargyrus frontalis, GIRARD, |. ¢. 
Leuciscus gracilis, AGAssiz, Lake Superior, 1850, 370. 
Plargyrus gracilis, GIRARD, I. ¢. : 
Hypsilenis gracilis, Copr, Proc. Phila. Acad. Sei., 1867, 157. 
Plargyrus typicus, GIRARD, 1. c., 195. 
Plargyrus argentatus, GIRARD, 1. ¢., 196. 
Plargyrus bowmant, GIRARD, 1. c., 186, and Pac. R. R. Surv., x, 263, 1858. 
Hypsilepis obesus, Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad. Sci., 1867, 157 (not LZ. obesus, Storer, fide 
Agassiz). 
_ Description.—Body elongate, compressed in the young, in the adult short, compressed, 
with the anterior dorsal much swollen ard gibbous; head rather heavy, compressed, 
rounded between the eyes, the snout bluntish, moderate, nearly horizontal, the jaws 
nearly equal, the lower somewhat inclined; eye moderate, four to five in head; max- 
illary scarcely reaching front of eye; the premaxillaries below the level of the eye; 
scales always deeper than long on the flanks, becoming extremely so in the adults; 
