. Check list of the vertebrates of Ontario and catalogue of specimens in the Biological Section of the Provincial Museum. Fishes -- Ontario; Freshwater fishes -- Ontario. 38 CHECK LIST OF THE Subgenus Red-sided Shiner. (Leuciscus elongatus.) (33) Red-sided Shiner. (Leuciscus elongatus.) Body elongate, fusiform with long and slender caudal peduncle; head large, with long pointed snout. Mouth wide, with projecting lower jaw. Caudal large and deeply forked. The lateral line is abruptly decurved over the front half of the pectoral. D. III., 7; A. III., 7; ^^, 8; P., 14. Teeth, 2, 5-5
. Check list of the vertebrates of Ontario and catalogue of specimens in the Biological Section of the Provincial Museum. Fishes -- Ontario; Freshwater fishes -- Ontario. 38 CHECK LIST OF THE Subgenus Red-sided Shiner. (Leuciscus elongatus.) (33) Red-sided Shiner. (Leuciscus elongatus.) Body elongate, fusiform with long and slender caudal peduncle; head large, with long pointed snout. Mouth wide, with projecting lower jaw. Caudal large and deeply forked. The lateral line is abruptly decurved over the front half of the pectoral. D. III., 7; A. III., 7; ^^, 8; P., 14. Teeth, 2, 5-5, 2, hooked, some of them with a narrow grinding surface. Colour, dusky bluish, somewhat mottled; a broad black lateral band, the front half of which is bright crim- son in spring males and which is persistent in most specimens through the summer. A very abundant species found in most streams in southern and central Ontario. One of the handsomest of our creek fish. Genus ABRAMIS. (Bream.) â Body subelliptic; strongly compressed, both back and belly curved; back narrowly compressed, almost carinated; belly behind ventral fins forming a keel over which the scales do not pass. Head small, conic; mouth small, oblique or horizontal, without barbels; scales rather large; lateral line continuous, strongly decurved ; dorsal fin inserted behind the ventrals; anal fin with its base more or less elongate; teeth 5-5, hooked, with grinding surface, the edges more or less crenate or serrate; aliment- ary canal short, though rather longer than the body. Subgenus NOTEMIGONUS. (34) Butterfish. Golden Shiner. (Abramis crysoleucas.) Body somewhat elongate, much compressed; head short, low, com- pressed, mouth small, oblique, the maxillary not reaching eye; lateral line much decurved. The dorsal fin higher than long, situated on middle of body. Caudal forked. Scales, 10-53-3. Teeth, 5-5, hooked and with grinding surface. D., 8; A., Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pag
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