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 . evirostris Cope This species is known only from the Klamath Lakes of attains a length of 12 to 18 inches and is a food-fish of some valueto the Indians, who know it as the Yen. Snout 2\ to 2\ in head; mandible i^ in snout; interorbital width2\ in head; D. 11; A. 9; scales 13-73-12; premaxillary spines notproduced to form a hump on the snout; lower lip fold present on thesides of the mandible; each lip
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 . evirostris Cope This species is known only from the Klamath Lakes of attains a length of 12 to 18 inches and is a food-fish of some valueto the Indians, who know it as the Yen. Snout 2\ to 2\ in head; mandible i^ in snout; interorbital width2\ in head; D. 11; A. 9; scales 13-73-12; premaxillary spines notproduced to form a hump on the snout; lower lip fold present on thesides of the mandible; each lip with small, inconspicuous, sparsetubercles, in 3 or 4 series on the upper lip; ventrals extending |distance to vent; scales with strong concentric striae. Colour, darkabove, silvery on lower part of side and on belly; fins all Klamath Lake Sucker Chasmistes stomias Gilbert This is another species ot Chasmistes inhabiting Upper Klamath 55 The Tswam Lake, which is a close rival of Utah Lake for the honour of being thegreatest sucker pond in the world. It is the most abundant species of the genus in the KlamathLakes. It reaches a length of 15 to 18 inches and is of great value tothe Indians, by whom it is known as Kahptu. From all other species of the genus, except C. brevirostris andC. copei, it is distinguished by its small scales (14 or 15-76 to 82-11),and from C. brevirostris it differs in the deeper head, larger man-dible, more oblique mouth, and by the prominent hump on the snout;mouth inclined at an angle of 40°. Colour, dark above, whitish orsilvery below, the two colours separated along a definite line travers-ing the side midway between lateral line and insertion ofventrals.
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