. American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America north of the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture. Fishes -- United States. The Tswam Lake, which is a close rival of Utah Lake for the honour of being the "greatest sucker pond in the world," It is the most abundant species of the genus in the Klamath Lakes. It reaches a length of 15 to 18 inches and is of great value to the Indians, by whom it is known as " ; From all other species of the genus, except C. brevirostris and C. copei, i
. American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America north of the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture. Fishes -- United States. The Tswam Lake, which is a close rival of Utah Lake for the honour of being the "greatest sucker pond in the world," It is the most abundant species of the genus in the Klamath Lakes. It reaches a length of 15 to 18 inches and is of great value to the Indians, by whom it is known as " ; From all other species of the genus, except C. brevirostris and C. copei, it is distinguished by its small scales (14 or 15-76 to 8^-11), and from C. brevirostris it differs in the deeper head, larger man- dible, more oblique mouth, and by the prominent hump on the snout; mouth inclined at an angle of 40°. Colour, dark above, whitish or silvery below, the two colours separated along a definite line travers- ing the side midway between lateral line and insertion of Tswam Chasmistes copei Evermann & Meek This is still another species of Chasmistes, inhabiting the Klamath Lakes. It closely resembles C. stomias, but may be distinguished from that species by its larger head, larger, more oblique mouth, less prominent snout, and very small fins. This sucker reaches a length of 16 or 18 inches and is used as food by the Klamath Indians. The Indian name is "; Head 3I; depth 4; eye 6|; snout 2|; D. 10; A. 7; scales 13-80-12. Head very large, cheek very deep; body stout, back scarcely elevated. Colour, upper parts dark olivaceous; under parts whitish; a dark spot in upper part of axil; dorsal and caudal dark; pectoral dark on inner surface; ventrals and anal plain. S'J. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. New York :
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