GENUS LAGOCHILA JORDAN & BRAYTON 



This is the most peculiar genus of suckers and may be known 

 readily by the nonprotractile upper lip and the split lower lip. The 



Hare-lip Sucker 



single species is the hare-lip sucker, cutlips, split-mouth sucker, 

 rabbit-mouth sucker, pea-lip sucker, or May sucker, L. lacera. 



llarc-li]) sucker, showing lower lip. 



It is found in clear streams in the Mississippi Valley, as the 

 I ippecanoe, Wabash, Clinch, Cumberland, Chickamauga and White 

 RiviT of Arkansas. It is most common in the Ozark region. 



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