FAMILY CYPRINIDAE 161 



University of Minnesota collections were collected from the Rock River 

 near Luverne in 1939. It apparently is absent from Wisconsin, for 

 Greene (1935) did not report it. 



RIVER SHINER 



Notrapis blennius (Girard) 



This slender minnow is rather pale and has a silvery lateral band. 

 There are about 37 scales in the lateral line. The teeth are 2, 4 — 4, 1. 



The river shiner ranges from Manitoba through Wisconsin and Ohio 

 to Pennsylvania and southward to Oklahoma. In Minnesota Evermann 

 and Latimer (1910) reported this species as common in Lake of the 

 Woods and the Rainy River. Woolman (1895) secured it in the Red 

 Lake River and Red River of the North. Cox (1897) reported it as 

 common in all the streams and lakes and stated further that if it was 

 more abundant in one place than another that place was the northern 

 part of Minnesota. Greene reported this species from the St. Croix 

 and Mississippi rivers. There are specimens in the University of Min- 

 nesota collections from Lake of the Woods and from the Mississippi 

 River at Winona. This species prefers large streams. 



SPOTTAIL SHINER (Spawneater) 

 Notropis hudsonius hudsonius (Clinton) 



This species (Figure 26D) has a well-defined spot at the base of the 

 caudal fin. The color varies from yellow to dusky, with a silvery lateral 

 band. The scales are 5-39-4. The pharyngeal teeth are 1, 4 — 4, 0-2. 

 This species reaches a length of slightly over 4 inches. 



The spottail shiner is apparently distributed through the Great Lakes 

 basin except for Lake Superior, the Upper Mississippi Valley, and the 

 Hudson River. It is fairly common in lakes and large streams in the 

 eastern and northern parts of Minnesota. It was reported by Cox as 

 being fairly common in Minnesota. Evermann and Latimer (1910) . in 

 speaking of it in their report on Lake of the Woods fishes, stated that 

 perhaps it is the most abundant minnow in these waters and doubtless 

 forms a large part of the food of the carnivorous species. 



Cox (1897) included the subspecies A^. hudsonius selene (Jordan) 

 from specimens obtained in Lake Superior at Bayfield, Wisconsin. This 

 subspecies name was not recognized by Jordan, Evermann, and Clark 

 except as a synonym of A'^. hudsonius. Greene (1935) attempted to re- 

 store the name and reported the subspecies to be common in Wisconsin 

 along the Mississippi River, St. Croix River, and Lake Superior. Hubbs 

 and Lagler (1941) reported the northern spottail shiner, A^. hudsonius 

 selene, to be distributed northward through the Red River Valley into 

 Canada. Specimens of this species from various parts of Minnesota have 

 been submitted to Hubbs, who states that they are similar to A^. hud- 



