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above, white beneath; tail olivaceous: head convex, 

 snout rounded. : lateral line straight : dorsal fin trape- 

 zoidal redish with 12 rays, anal fin elongated yellow, 

 anal falcated, with 7 rays. 



A fine species, not uncommon in the Ohio, Ken- 

 tucky, Cumberland, Tennessee, &c. Vulgar names 

 Red-horse, Red-tail, Horse-fish, Horse Sucker, &c. 

 Length about one foot. Scales very large. Mouth 

 beneath. Iris whitish, eyes black. Pectora[l] fins 

 yellow elliptical reaching the abdominals and with 

 16 rays. Tail large with 20 rays. Its flesh is dry 

 and not very good to eat. 



64th Species. Kentucky Sucker. Catostomus 

 flexuosus. Catostome flexueux. 



Diameter one fifth of the length: silvery, back 

 brownish, scales rather rough, opercule flexuose : 

 head squared, snout gibbose truncate; lips very 

 thick, the inferior bilobed: lateral line flexuose: tail 

 brown: dorsal fin blackish with 12 rays, anal fin 

 whitish with 7 rays and reaching the tail. 



The most common species in Kentucky, in all the 

 streams and ponds, called merely Sucker. Very 

 good to eat. It conceals itself in the mud in winter. 

 It bites at the hook, living on minnies and little lob- 

 sters. Body thick cylindrical. From ten to twelve 

 inches long. Head large, a deep depresion between 

 the snout and the head, mouth large with fleshy lips. 

 Eyes large black, iris yellow. Opercule hard bony. 

 Lower fins whitish, pectorals elongated elliptical with 

 20 rays. Tail 20 [II. 306] rays. Dorsal trapezoidal 

 sloping behind. This fish is the most useful to keep 

 in ponds. 



65th Species. Big-mouth Sucker. Catostomus? 

 megastomus. Catostome megastome. 



