..The fishes of Illinois . rvOU o p WU w PL. AMEIURUS—bullheads; horned pout 187. AMEIURUS NEBULOSUS (Le Sueur)(common bullhead; brown bullhead; speckled bullhead) Le Sueur, 1819, Mem. Mus., V, 149 (Plmelodus). J. & G., 104 (catus); M. V., 40; J. & E,, I, 140; N., 50 (albidus, atrarius, vulgaris); J., 66 and 67 (catus, xanthocephalus (?), marmoratus, vulgaris); F., 83 (Ictalurus nebulosus, part); F, F., II. 7, 460 (Ictalurus); L., 10. Body typically elongate, never more than moderately robust, rathermore compressed than in A. melas; depth from to in length,usually nearly or a little mo
..The fishes of Illinois . rvOU o p WU w PL. AMEIURUS—bullheads; horned pout 187. AMEIURUS NEBULOSUS (Le Sueur)(common bullhead; brown bullhead; speckled bullhead) Le Sueur, 1819, Mem. Mus., V, 149 (Plmelodus). J. & G., 104 (catus); M. V., 40; J. & E,, I, 140; N., 50 (albidus, atrarius, vulgaris); J., 66 and 67 (catus, xanthocephalus (?), marmoratus, vulgaris); F., 83 (Ictalurus nebulosus, part); F, F., II. 7, 460 (Ictalurus); L., 10. Body typically elongate, never more than moderately robust, rathermore compressed than in A. melas; depth from to in length,usually nearly or a little more than4; profile long and almost straight,the shoulders never prominent andno groove before dorsal; skin thin,fitting closely over top of head andnape, that of belly consisting of avery thin and delicate epidermallayer over a thick layer of unpig-mented connective tissue. Size rang-ing larger than in the next species,reaching 18 inches. Color variable,usually a rather dark yellowishbrown faintly clouded, more strong-ly mottled with darker in the nom-inal variety marmo
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