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Identifier: fishes00jord (find matches)
Title: Fishes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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the Everglades of Florida. In both the body 512 Percoidea, or Perch-like Fishes is oblong and compressed, the color is dull green crossed byblack bars or blotches. The Sunfishes: Centrarchidae.—The large family of Centrar-chidce, or snnlishes, is especially characteristic of the rivers ofthe eastern United States, where the various species areinordinately abundant. The body is relatively short anddeep, and the axis passes through the middle so that the backhas much the same outline as the belly. The pseudobranchiasare imperfect, as in many fresh-water fishes, and the head isfeebly armed, the bones being usually without spines or serra-tures. The colors are often brilliant, the sexes alike, and allare carnivorous, voracious, and gamy, being excellent as food.The origin of the group is probably Asiatic, the fresh-waterserranoid of Japan, Bryttosns, resembling in many ways anAmerican sunfish, and the genus Kulilia cf the Pacific showingmany homologies with the black bass, Micropterus.
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Fio. 400 —Crappie, Pomoris annularis Rafinesque. Ohio River. Crappies and Rock Bass. — Pomoxis annularis, the crappie,and Pomoxis sparoides, the calico-bass, are handsome fishes,valued by the angler. These are perhaps the most prim-itive of the family, and in these species the anal fin islarger than the dorsal. The flier, or round bass, Cenirarclmsmacropterus, with eight anal spines, is abundant in swampsand lowland ponds of the Southern States. It is a pretty fish,attractive in the aquarium. Acantharchus pomoiis is themud-bass of the Delaware, and Archoplites inierruptus, the

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