. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. 92 FISHES OF NORTH CAROLINA. dorsal fin rather nearer snout than base of caudal, over ventrals, rays 8; anal rays 8; caudal deeply forked. Color: pale green above, the scales with dark edges; a silvery lateral band, with black punctulations ending in a distinct roundish black spot at base of caudal, (hud- sonius, pertaining to Hudson River; salvdanus, pertaining to Saluda River.). Fig. 27. Spawn-eater; Shiner. Notropis hvdsonius scUvdanus. Notropis hvdsonius is a widely distributed and highly variable minnow. It ranges from New York through the Great La
. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. 92 FISHES OF NORTH CAROLINA. dorsal fin rather nearer snout than base of caudal, over ventrals, rays 8; anal rays 8; caudal deeply forked. Color: pale green above, the scales with dark edges; a silvery lateral band, with black punctulations ending in a distinct roundish black spot at base of caudal, (hud- sonius, pertaining to Hudson River; salvdanus, pertaining to Saluda River.). Fig. 27. Spawn-eater; Shiner. Notropis hvdsonius scUvdanus. Notropis hvdsonius is a widely distributed and highly variable minnow. It ranges from New York through the Great Lakes, to the Dakotas, and thence to Georgia and the Carolinas. The southern form, variety saludanus, embraces most of the North Carolina specimens. The fish has been found in Cape Fear, Yadkin, Catawba, Neuse, and Pasquotank rivers, but is not common in any of them; specimens have recently been examined from a tributary of Little Tenn- essee River in Macon County which were forwarded for identification by Mr. D. P. Cabe, of Otto. The variety attains a length of 4 inches. 68. NOTROPIS NIVEUS (Cope). "Shiner"; Snowy Minnow. Hybopaia niveua Cope, 1870t, 460; upper Catawba River, North Carolina. Notropit niveua, Jordan, 18896, 125, 129, 132, 134, 138; Tar, Neuse, Cape Fear, Yadkin, and Catawba rivers. Smith, 1893a, 194; Albemarle Sound. Evermann & Cox, 1896, 305; Neuse River near Raleigh. Jordan & Evermann, 1896, 277. Diagnosis.—^Body regularly fusiform, dorsal region more arched than ventral, depth .2 total length without caudal; head conic, its length contained times in total body length; muzzle obtuse, mouth nearly terminal, slightly oblique, lower jaw included, maxilla extending to opposite anterior rim of orbit; eye equal to snout, contained 3 to times in length of head; scales, 35 to 40 in lengthwise series, 9 in crosswise series, 15 or 16 before dorsal fin; lateral line decurved; dorsal rays 8, anal rays 8 or 9; teeth 1,4—4,1 (or 1,4—4,0), slig
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