American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . belly yellowish or pale; in springthe fins are reddish or orange and the scales more or lessdusted with dark specks; young with a black caudal spot. White Salmon of the Colorado River PtycJiocJieilns Indus Girard This species differs chiefly from the squawfish, which itclosely resembles, in the much smaller scales, there being 83 to 69 I The Utah Lake Chub 90 in the lateral line. There are no other important dif
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . belly yellowish or pale; in springthe fins are reddish or orange and the scales more or lessdusted with dark specks; young with a black caudal spot. White Salmon of the Colorado River PtycJiocJieilns Indus Girard This species differs chiefly from the squawfish, which itclosely resembles, in the much smaller scales, there being 83 to 69 I The Utah Lake Chub 90 in the lateral line. There are no other important differences. Colorado basin; very abundant in the river channels as farup as the mountains of Colorado. This is the largest of the American Cyprinidcv. It reaches alength of 5 feet or more, and a weight of 80 pounds, thoughexamples of this extreme size are infrequent. At Green River,Wyoming, individuals of 8 and 10 pounds are not at all is known variously as the whitefish, white salmon, or salmon,and in the Colorado basin, where species of food-fishes are notnumerous, it is a fish of considerable importance. Nothing distinctive is known of its habits or methods Utah Lake Chub LcHciscus li neat us (Girard) Head 3^; depth j\\ eye 7; D. 9; A. 8; scales 10-5S to65-5; teeth 2, 5-4, 2, short and stout, one of them with grind-ing surface. Body robust, elevated anteriorlv, the sides com-pressed, although the back is verv broad; head broad, theinterorbital space flattish; adult with the profile concave, straightor convex in the young; snout broad, elevated at the tip;premaxillary on level of pupil; mouth very oblique, the mandibleprojecting; maxillary reaching front of eye; scales large, sub-equal, broadly exposed, firm; lateral line decurved; dorsal nearlymedian, inserted directly over ventrals; caudal evenly forked, thepeduncle long and deep; pectoral short, reaching f distance toventrals; ventrals about reaching vent. Colour, dark, the scalesmuch dotted, the edges qu
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