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readily adapts itself to life in the aquarium. It feeds entirely on mollusks, insects 

 and insect larvae. The species is not much esteemed as a food fish, though it is sold 

 in large numbers. 



Minytrema mclanops is normally without a lateral line, but this feature is occa- 

 sionally partially developed and has caused some confusion in assigning certain 

 individuals to their proper genus; indeed, one author has described and figured the 

 Striped Sucker as two species, belonging to two different genera, having been misled 

 by this undeveloped character. 



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 26. White-nosed Sucker (Moxostoma anisurum Rafinesque). 



Moxostoma anisurum JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 141, 1883 ; BEAN, 

 Fishes Penna., 28, 1893 ; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 190, 

 1896. 



WHITE-NOSED SUCKER. 



The White-nosed Sucker is found sparingly in the Ohio River and the Great 

 Lakes region ; widely distributed, but nowhere abundant. Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 received from Milbert a specimen sent from Lake Ontario, measuring about 2 feet. 

 Dr. Jordan says this is very closely related to the common Red Horse, from which 

 it can hardly be distinguished except by its fins. Dr. Evermann collected a single 

 specimen at Fox Island, N. Y., June 29, 1894 ; he also obtained a specimen 12 inches 

 long at Point Breeze, N. Y., August 21, 1894, which he refers to this species, though 

 indicating some characters in which it differs from the normal form of the White- 

 nosed Sucker. 



