. 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 . Fishes; Fishes; Fishes. The Squawfish body are covered with smnll tubercles, outgrowths from the epider- mis; the tins and lower parts of the body are often charged with bright pigment, the prevailing colour of which is red, although in some genera it is satin-white, yellowish, or even black. Although nearly all the Cvpn'ntthv are very small fishes, there are ft few species the individuals of which reach a larg
. 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 . Fishes; Fishes; Fishes. The Squawfish body are covered with smnll tubercles, outgrowths from the epider- mis; the tins and lower parts of the body are often charged with bright pigment, the prevailing colour of which is red, although in some genera it is satin-white, yellowish, or even black. Although nearly all the Cvpn'ntthv are very small fishes, there are ft few species the individuals of which reach a large size. As so few of the many genera of American Cvprinida' have any commercial species, generic descriptions have been omitted in the hope that the specific descriptions may Squawfish Ptvchochcilus orcnincusis Richardson The squawfish is one of the largest of the minnows. It reaches a length of 2 to 4 feet, a size which shows strikingly that "minnows" are not necessarily little fish. Its geographic range is from British Columbia southward in Pacific Coast drainage to central California. In the Columbia River basin it ascends as far as Shoshone Falls in Snake River, and at least to Flathead Lake in Clarks Fork. it is abun- dant in the Fraser, and also in the Sacramento, San Joaquin, Salinas, and other lowland streams of California. it is very abundant in the Redfish Lakes, and other lakes of Idaho. Dur- ing the fall and the latter part of summer large schools of this species could be seen, particularly in the evening, swimming about the mouths of the inlets, usually at a depth of s to 40 teet, but toward evening they would come to the surface and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931; Evermann, Barton Warren, joint author. Garden City, N. Y. : Dou
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