. 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 -- North America. The Stone Cat; Little Yellow Cat adipose fin adnate to the back; a poison gland at the base of the pectoral spine. This genus, which contains but a single species, is close to 5r////M),/('\ (the mad-toms), the species all having the poison gland and the adnate adipose fin, and all being small fish, lurk- ing among weeds in stony brooks. ^. - •'•. • Stone Cat; Little Yellow Cat Notnrns fla
. 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 -- North America. The Stone Cat; Little Yellow Cat adipose fin adnate to the back; a poison gland at the base of the pectoral spine. This genus, which contains but a single species, is close to 5r////M),/('\ (the mad-toms), the species all having the poison gland and the adnate adipose fin, and all being small fish, lurk- ing among weeds in stony brooks. ^. - •'•. • Stone Cat; Little Yellow Cat Notnrns flavns Rafinesque Head about 4^ in length, its width ^\\ depth v|; dis- tance from snout to origin of dorsal about 3 in length; A. about 16. Body elongate, the head depressed, broad and flat, nearly as broad as long; middle of body subcylindrical; caudal peduncle compressed; a strong keel on back between dorsal fin and adipose fin, the latter deeply notched; dorsal spine very short; pectoral spine retrorsely serrate in front, slightly rough or nearly entire behind, its length \ distance from snout to origin of dorsal; caudal rounded behind; humeral process very short and sharp. Colour, nearly uniform yellowish brown, sometimes blackish above; fins edged with yellow. Length, a foot or more. Great Lakes region, and westward and south to Montana, Wyoming and Texas, rather common, especially westward. This is the only one of the catfishes with adnate adipose fin attaining sufficient size to give it any food value. Ordinarily it is used as food only in those regions where food fishes are not numerous. Related to the stone cat. are in America, ten or a dozen species of small catfishes belonging to the genus Schilbeodes, and known as mad toms. They are all very small, none of them ex- 34. 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 rese
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