Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . Fig. 45.—Scales of Semotilus atromaculatus. After Baird. sides of the Alleghanies and is everywhere abundant in thelarger streams, seldom ascending small brooks. It rarely attainsa length of nine inches. The genus containing the largest eastern American species isnamed Semotilus and differs from Leuciscus mainly in the fact that there is a little skinny flap called a ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ * barbel—and a very little one it is— ^K^ -^A vSLK) near the hinder end of each upper jaw ^^^ ^S^^ ^S^r *- supramaxillary bone, and the dorsal ^^^^T \ fin is a little farther bac
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . Fig. 45.—Scales of Semotilus atromaculatus. After Baird. sides of the Alleghanies and is everywhere abundant in thelarger streams, seldom ascending small brooks. It rarely attainsa length of nine inches. The genus containing the largest eastern American species isnamed Semotilus and differs from Leuciscus mainly in the fact that there is a little skinny flap called a ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ * barbel—and a very little one it is— ^K^ -^A vSLK) near the hinder end of each upper jaw ^^^ ^S^^ ^S^r *- supramaxillary bone, and the dorsal ^^^^T \ fin is a little farther back; the pharyn- •• \ gs^l teeth of one side are also reduced in number (2, 5—4, 2). There are two very distinct species(6. atromaculatus and S. corporalis),mostly designated as chubs in the eastern states, but also knownas dace and by various other names. A third more southernform (S. thoreauianus) is scarcely distinguishable from the The fish generally called chub or, more specifically, silver chub,in the e
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