. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 24 I FISH AM) GAME 32b. Scales in lateral line 70 to 80. Body bluish above, silvery below, with a dusky lateral shade and a leath- ery texture to the skin Leatherside chub, Snyderichthys aliciae. FIGURE 32. Leatherside chub CHARACIN FAMILY {CHARACIDAE) The American characins are almost wholly confined to South and Middle America. A single species readies the United States in western Texas and New Mexico. Mexican Banded Tetr
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 24 I FISH AM) GAME 32b. Scales in lateral line 70 to 80. Body bluish above, silvery below, with a dusky lateral shade and a leath- ery texture to the skin Leatherside chub, Snyderichthys aliciae. FIGURE 32. Leatherside chub CHARACIN FAMILY {CHARACIDAE) The American characins are almost wholly confined to South and Middle America. A single species readies the United States in western Texas and New Mexico. Mexican Banded Tetra, Astyanax fasciatus mexicanus (Filippi). Figure 1. This charaein was first recorded as a bait fish along the (lolorado River by Evans and Douglas (1950) on the basis of specimens offered for sale at Bob Williams' Bait Shop in Yuma. Arizona. These individuals were ex- amined by C. L. Ilubbs and the writer on March 23, 1950. The Mexican banded tetra evidently was accidentally included in a ship- ment (or shipments) consisting mostly of fathead minnows. Pimephales promt Ins. that came from Truth or Consequences (formerly Hot Springs) on the Rio Grande, New Mexico. These fish were being sold at Fisher's Landing. Laguna Dam, about 14 miles above Yuma, and in the Yuma area—only on the Arizona side of the Colorado River. The aggressive and frequently vicious nature of this sharp-toothed charaein is known to those who have had first-hand experience with it (Breder, 1943). The voracious nature of this species was conclusively proven to me from observations I made on a closely related subspecies in the lowlands of Guatemala in 1946 and 1947. Under no circumstances should this potentially dangerous carnivore be used for bait, for its establishment in the Colorado River might well have a disastrous effect on the fishery. SUCKER FAMILY (CATOSTOMIDAE) This common group of fishes is largely restricted to Xorth America. Two species live in eastern Asia and one penetrates southward to Guat
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