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 . and nearly smooth; snoutusually elevated above rest of head; the premaxillary spines gene-rally forming a conspicuous nose; lower lip moderate, consistingof a broad flap on each side of the mandible, reduced to a nar-row rim in front, the surface of the lip nearly smooth, withoutpapillae; nostrils large; fontanelle well developed; gillrakers simple,fringe-like; air-bladder in 2 parts. Species of rather large siz
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 . and nearly smooth; snoutusually elevated above rest of head; the premaxillary spines gene-rally forming a conspicuous nose; lower lip moderate, consistingof a broad flap on each side of the mandible, reduced to a nar-row rim in front, the surface of the lip nearly smooth, withoutpapillae; nostrils large; fontanelle well developed; gillrakers simple,fringe-like; air-bladder in 2 parts. Species of rather large size,inhabiting the Great Salt Lake Basin and the Klamath Lakes ofsouthern Oregon. Six species are recognized, only 4 of which seem to be ofany commercial importance. a. Scales moderate, 60 to 6s in the lateral line. b. Scales 9-63-8; dorsal usually 11; nose prominent; Horns, 54aa. Scales small, 75 to 8s in the lateral line. c. Snout prominent, premaxillary spines strongly protruding, form- ing a prominently projecting snout; stotnias, 55 cc. Snout not prominent, premaxillary spines not forming a pro-minent hump. d. Scales 12-75-11; brevirostris, 5s lid. Scales 13-80-12; copei, 56. June Sucker of Utah Lake Chasmistes lionis JordanKnown only from Utah Lake, where it is exceedingly abundant, 54 Short-nosed Sucker contributing, with Catostomus aniens, to make that lake the greatestsucker pond in the world. Head 3f; depth 5; eye 6 to 7; scales 9-63-8; D. 11; A. 7; inter-orbital space broad, 2\ in head; width of the open mouth 3^ in head;dorsal elevated in front, its longest ray twice the length of the last andabout equal to base of fin; caudal deeply forked, the lower lobe thelonger; lower fins small. Colour, dusky above, pale below; backand sides profusely covered with dark punctulations. Length 18inches or less. Short-nosed Sucker Chasmistes b}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
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