CATOSTOMUS TERES. 



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types of G. sucJclii are lost, but C. teres occurs in tbe Upper Missouri 

 region, and Girard's description bints at no specific diflfereuee. Catosto- 

 vins cMoropteron Abbott is evidently the same. Catostomus texanus 

 Abbott, described from a dried specimen, is less clear, but what there is 

 of specific characterization in the description points to C. teres. The 

 dorsal cariuation is frequently observed in stuffed fishes in which some 

 flesh is left in tiie back to shrink in drying, leaving the back "carinated". 

 I have examined several of the types of Catostomus aUicoliis Cope. 

 They are all small fishes, not oue-lourth grown, and, as usual in young 

 fishes, the head appears proportionally large. I see, however, no rea- 

 son for considering them different from (Jatostomus teres. Moxostoma 

 trisignatiim I have already referred to. The absence of the lateral line 

 is due to their youth, not to their belonging to a different genus. 

 The three large lateral spots, " not seen in any other of the order," are 

 found on young specimens of Catostomus generally. I have examined 

 the types of ^'■Moxostoma trisi<jnaium''\ and have found specimens of 

 similar size, similarly colored and without lateral line, from Michigan and 

 from other Western States. I would undertake to match them from any 

 stream in the West. The reference of these specimens to Moxostoma 

 {Erimyzon) was probably the result of a very hasty examination. 



Specimens in United States National Museum. 



