Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 11 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...This species is nearly allied to E. longimane, and like that species is intermediate between the groups known as Boleosoma and Ulocentra. Scales 52,54,55,55,60,62,65, 60, 62, 53, 62, 63, 52, 58, in fourteen specimens of E. evides from tributaries of the French Broad. In Indiana specimens the number rarely goes below 60. 12. Etheostoma verecundum Jordan & Everaiann, ap. uov. (Type No. 39862, U. S. Nat. Mus.) Subgenus Ulocentra Jordan, apparently allied to E. ttigmceum and to E.hutrio. Head, 4 in length; depth, 4 . D. XI, 11. A. II, 7. Scales, 6-47-9. Length, 2J inches. Form of head and body much as iu E. zonale, the body subfusiform, little compressed, the baek somewhat elevated. Head small; snout short, very convex in profile; eye large, longer than snout, 3 in head. Mouth small, inferior, horizontal; premaxillaries protractile, but with traces of an obsolete mesial freuum; maxillary extending to just beyond front of eye, 3$ iu head. Gill membranes broadly united; preopercle entire; cheeks, opercles, and nape scaly; breast naked; lateral line complete. Fins all very low; dorsal fins scarcely joined; caudal slightly lunate; pectorals as long as head, reaching tips of veutrals, not to vent. Color in spirits greenish-yellow, much mottled with darker green; six or seven distinct quadrate green spots along lateral line; traces of three dark spots in a vertical row at base of caudal; a dark bar below and before eye; top of head dark. Ventralsand aual plain, other fins barred with dark olive; spinous dorsal with orange in front and orange spots on its last rays; tip of last spines dark. A single specimeu of this species was taken in the Middle Fork of the Holstou River, about 5 miles south of Glade Spring, Va. 13. Etheostoma swannanoa Jordan &...