Identifier: americanfoodgam00jord (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ever deeply cleft; lips with transverse plicae, rarelybroken up into papillae; jaws without cartilaginous sheath; oper-cular bones moderately developed, nearly smooth; isthmus broad;gillrakers weak, moderately long; pharyngeal bones rather weak,as in Catostomus, the teeth rather coarser and strongly com-pressed, the lower 5 or 6 more strongly than the others, whichrapidly diminish in size upward, each with a prominent internalcusp; scales large, more or less quadrate in form, nearly equalin size over the body, and not especially crowded anywhere;lateral line well developed, straight or anteriorly curved; finswell developed, the dorsal inserted about midway of the body,its first ray usually rather nearer snout than caudal; anal finshort and high, usually emarginate in the male; caudal findeeply forked; air-bladder with three chambers. Sexual characters little marked, the males during the spawn-ing season with the lower fins reddened and the anal rayssomewhat swollen and tuberculate. 60
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COMMON REDHORSE SUCKER, Mcuosloiua durcolinn

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