. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. 76 FISHES OF NORTH CABOLINA. where the fish is called "black winter sucker". The U. S. National Museum has four specimens from Neuse River at Kinston, collected by J. W. Milner in 1875, and another from Cape Fear River collected by Marshall McDonald in 1880. The fish reaches a length of 18 Fig. 23. Spotted Sucker. Minytrema melanops. Genus MOXOSTOMA Rafinesque. Red-horses. A ijumerous genus of large-sized suckers found all over the United States east of Rocky Mountains. The elongate body is more or less compressed and the back elevate
. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. 76 FISHES OF NORTH CABOLINA. where the fish is called "black winter sucker". The U. S. National Museum has four specimens from Neuse River at Kinston, collected by J. W. Milner in 1875, and another from Cape Fear River collected by Marshall McDonald in 1880. The fish reaches a length of 18 Fig. 23. Spotted Sucker. Minytrema melanops. Genus MOXOSTOMA Rafinesque. Red-horses. A ijumerous genus of large-sized suckers found all over the United States east of Rocky Mountains. The elongate body is more or less compressed and the back elevated; size of head, mouth, and eye variable; lips well developed, with transverse folds; gill-rakers long and weak; scales large; dorsal fin rather long and high, in about riiiddle of body; anal fin short and high; caudal large and well forked. The genus is more numerously represented in North Carolina than in any other state, and some of the nominal species are difficult to distinguish and are perhaps not distinct. Following are some of the characters by which the species may be separated, according to Cope and Jordan & Evermann: Key to the North Carolina species of red-horses. i. Labial folds broken up into conspicuous papiUae; mouth very small; snout projecting; dorsal rays 12 to 14 •papillosum. a. Labial folds not broken up into distinct papillae. a. Dorsal fin long, with 15 to 18 rays; lower lip v-shaped; mouth quite .coUapsum. aa. Dorsal fin shorter, with 10 to 14 or 15 rays. 6. Lower lip narrow, infolded, v-shaped, with distinct median crease in which the halves meet at an acute angle. ' c. Body elongate, subcylindrical, little compressed; snout truncate pidiense. cc. Body compressed, back elevated, muzzle projecting beyond very small mouth. coreaonii^. 66. Lower lip thin, forming a narrow, crescent-shaped border around mandible. d. Head small, .20 total length; snout prominent; dorsal rays 12 to 14 ... .album, dd. Head larger, . 25 total length; snout not pro
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