Fishes of Montana* 



By Dr. James A. Henshall, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 

 But thirty-six species of fishes have so far been recorded as native 

 to the waters of Montana, as embraced in the following catalogue. Sev- 

 eral of the species have been identified from the descriptions of Dewis 

 and Clark, but most of them were collected by the Government Railroad 

 Surveys in the Missouri River below the Great Falls, and of late years 

 a few have been collected by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



Family ACIPENSERIDAE. 



1. Scaphirynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque.) Shovel-nose Sturgeon. 



Missouri River at Fort Benton. 



Family SILURIDAE. 



2. Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque). Channel Catfish; White Catfish. 



Missouri River at mouth of Beauchamp Creek and at Great Falls; 

 Milk River; Yellowstone River. 



3. Noturus flavus, Rafinesque. Stone Catfish. 



Missouri River, near Craig. 



Family CATOSTOM I DAE. 



4. Carpiodes velifer (Rafinesque). Quill-back; Carp Sucker. 



Milk River; Poplar River. 



5. Pantosteus jordani, Evermann. Jordan's Sucker. 



Sweet Grass Hills; Red Rock River; Beaverhead River. 



6. Catostomus discobolus, Cope. Big-mouth Sucker. 



Red Rock River; Beaverhead River. 



7. Castostomus griseus (Girard). Gray Sucker. 



Milk River; Yellowstone River; Gardiner River; Poplar River. 



8. Catostomus catostomus (Forster). Long-nose Sucker. 



Little Blackfoot River; Jocko River; Lolo Creek; Browns Gulch 

 Creek. 



9. Catostomus macrocheilus (Girard). Columbia River Sucker. 



Swan Lake; Post Creek; presumably in Flathead Lake. 



10. Catostomus commersonii (Lacepede). White Sucker. 



Milk River; Poplar River. 



11. Minytrema melanops (Rafinesque). Spotted Sucker. 



Yellowstone River. 



12. Moxostoma aureolum (Le Sueur). Red Horse Sucker; Mullet. 

 CD Poplar River. 



22 Family CYPRINDAE. 



CO 13. Hybognathus nuchalis, Agassiz. Silvery Minnow. 



'"^ Poplar River. 



py 14. Hybognathus argyritis, Girard. Little Silvery Minnow. 



ZD Milk River. 



