. 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 -- United States. Razor-back Sucker; Hump-back Sucker Only two species are known, both from the Colorado River. Only one of these is of any food value. The other (X. iincom- pahgre Jordan & Evermann^ is known only from the type, a specimen 7 inches long, and may be the young of X. Razor-back Sucker; Hump-back Sucker Xyrauchen cypho (Lockington) Known only from the Colorado Basin, where it is q
. 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 -- United States. Razor-back Sucker; Hump-back Sucker Only two species are known, both from the Colorado River. Only one of these is of any food value. The other (X. iincom- pahgre Jordan & Evermann^ is known only from the type, a specimen 7 inches long, and may be the young of X. Razor-back Sucker; Hump-back Sucker Xyrauchen cypho (Lockington) Known only from the Colorado Basin, where it is quite abundant and of considerable value. It reaches a weight of 8 to 10 pounds. Head 4; depth 4; D. 13 or 14; A. 7; scales 13 to 15-72 to 77-13. Body stout, compressed, the head low, the profile ascending to the prominent hump; mouth wide, inferior; upper lip with 2 rows of papillae, the lower deeply divided and with 8 rows ; dorsal fin long and low, with concave edge; caudal broad and strong, with numerous rudimentary rays; scales loosely imbri- cated; anterior part of hump scaleless. Colour, plain olivaceous. GENUS ERIMYZON JORDAN The Chub Suckers This genus may be known by the entire absence of a late- ral line and the plain colouration in the adult. The young have a broad black lateral band and are easily mistaken for Cyprinida\ 58. 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. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
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