. The food and game fishes of New York: . fishermen because of the painful wounds sometimesproduced by their pectoral spines. There is a minute pore in the of thepectoral, which is the outlet of a noxious liquid secreted by a poison gland. Whenthis poison is discharged into a wound, it causes an extremely painful STONE CAT. 19. Lake Carp (Carpiodcs thoiu/^soni Agassiz.) Carpiodei t/wwpsoii! jo-RDA-H, Bull. 12, U. S. Nat. Mus. 198, 1878; Jordan & Gilbert,Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 119, 1883. Abundant in the Great Lakes region. Found in Lake Champlain. 20. Long-nosed Sucker (Catosfo
. The food and game fishes of New York: . fishermen because of the painful wounds sometimesproduced by their pectoral spines. There is a minute pore in the of thepectoral, which is the outlet of a noxious liquid secreted by a poison gland. Whenthis poison is discharged into a wound, it causes an extremely painful STONE CAT. 19. Lake Carp (Carpiodcs thoiu/^soni Agassiz.) Carpiodei t/wwpsoii! jo-RDA-H, Bull. 12, U. S. Nat. Mus. 198, 1878; Jordan & Gilbert,Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 119, 1883. Abundant in the Great Lakes region. Found in Lake Champlain. 20. Long-nosed Sucker (Catosfojiius catostovius Forster). Catostomus lorigirostris ];h.^,S,\\\\. 12, U. S. Nat. Mus. 175, 1878; Jordan & Gil-bert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 126, catostoiiius, Bean, Fishes Penna., 25, pi. 20, fig. 30, 1893. The Northern Sucker, Long-nosed Sucker, or Red-sided Sucker, as the abovespecies is styled, occurs in the Great Lakes and northwest to Alaska in clear, coldwaters. It is verv common in Lake Erie. It grows to a length of 2 feet and is 2/8 SEVEXIll KKiOKr rilE FOREST, FISH AND (;A.\1K COMMISSION. largest and most abundant northward, in Alaska reaching a weight of 5 pounds. Asa food fish the Long-nosed Sucker is little esteemed ; but in cold countries the headand roe are usctl in ma
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