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 . Razor-back Sucker; Hump-back Sucker Xyrauchen cypho (Lockington) Known only from the Colorado Basin, where it is quiteabundant and of considerable value. It reaches a weight of 8 to10 pounds. Head 4; depth 4; D, 13 or 14; A. 7; scales 13 to 15-72 to77-13. Body stout, compressed, the head low, the profile ascendingto the prominent hump; mouth wide, inferior; upper lip with 2rows of papillae, the lower deeply divi
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 . Razor-back Sucker; Hump-back Sucker Xyrauchen cypho (Lockington) Known only from the Colorado Basin, where it is quiteabundant and of considerable value. It reaches a weight of 8 to10 pounds. Head 4; depth 4; D, 13 or 14; A. 7; scales 13 to 15-72 to77-13. Body stout, compressed, the head low, the profile ascendingto the prominent hump; mouth wide, inferior; upper lip with 2rows of papillae, the lower deeply divided and with 8 rows ;dorsal fm long and low, with concave edge; caudal broad andstrong, with numerous rudimentary rays; scales loosely imbri-cated; anterior part of hump scaleless. Colour, plain olivaceous. GENUS ERIMYZON JORDANThe Chub Suckers This genus may be known by the entire absence of a late-ral line and the plain colouration in the adult. The young havea broad black lateral band and are easily mistaken for Cypnntdo. 58 Chub Sucker. Chub Sucker Only one species is known, E. sucetta, the chub sucker orcreekfish, which reaches a length of about lo inches and iswidely distributed from the Great Lakes and New England southto Texas. Those in the northern part of the range have beenregarded as a subspecies, E. sitcetia oblongus. GENUS MINYTREMA JORDAN This genus may be known by the incomplete lateral lineand the presence of a small blackish spot at base of each scaleon side, these forming interrupted longitudinal lines along therows of scales.
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