. 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; Fishes; Fishes. Common Sucker ; White Sucker the mouth of some inlet and swim slowly about in this way for an hour or more just at sundown. The meaning of this particular habit has not been explained. Head 4 to 4*; depth 5; eye s to 6 in head; snout 2; D. 12 to 14; A. 7; scales 12 to 14-65 to 75-10 or 11, about 40 before the dorsal. Body rather heavy forward, the caudal peduncle slender; snout blunt, ov
. 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; Fishes; Fishes. Common Sucker ; White Sucker the mouth of some inlet and swim slowly about in this way for an hour or more just at sundown. The meaning of this particular habit has not been explained. Head 4 to 4*; depth 5; eye s to 6 in head; snout 2; D. 12 to 14; A. 7; scales 12 to 14-65 to 75-10 or 11, about 40 before the dorsal. Body rather heavy forward, the caudal peduncle slender; snout blunt, overlapping the horizontal mouth which is quite large, with very large lips, the upper full and pendant, with 6 to 8 rows of moderate papillae; dorsal fin much longer than high; pectoral long and narrow; caudal well forked. Colour, rather dark; a dusky lateral streak; abruptly pale Common Sucker ; White Sucker Catosiomits commersonii (Lacepede) This is the most abundant sucker in the streams and lakes from Quebec and Massachusetts westward to Montana and Colo- rado and southward to Missouri and Georgia. Specimens from Montana to Colorado have the lips broader and with more numer- ous papillae. in the smaller streams this species reaches a length of but a few inches, while in the larger streams and lakes it attains a length of 18 inches or more and becomes a food-fish of consid- erable importance. Though quite bony, its flesh is firm and flaky and very sweet, in some parts of the country this species is caught in large numbers and salted for winter use. It is usu- ally taken bv means of seines, traps or gillnets. 51. 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; Evermann, Barton Warren, joint author. Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page
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