FISHES 



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scales 5-36-3, 13 before the dorsal fin; body slender, lateral line very 

 short; snout very obtuse: Massachusetts to Maryland, in coastal 

 streams; not common. 



N. anogemis Forbes. Length 35 mm.; head 4.25; depth 4; color 

 dusky with a dark lateral band through the eye ending in a black spot 

 at the base of the tail fin; mouth very small and oblique; chin black; 

 snout obtuse; scales 34 to 37: western New York to northern Illinois; 

 scarce. 



.V. cayuga Meek (Fig. 35). Length 60 mm.; head 4.5; depth 

 4.5; color olivaceous, with a black stripe through the snout and eye, 

 a dusk}' lateral shade and a small caudal spot; belly yellow; scales 



Fig. 35. — Notropis cayuga (from. Jordan is' Evermann) . 



36, 14 before the dorsal fin; mouth very small: northern New York 

 to South Dakota; southward to Texas; not rare. 



N. welaka Evermann & Kendall. Head 4. 2 ; depth 5 ; color olivaceous, 

 with a broad black lateral band extending from the snout to a black 

 spot at the base of the tail fin; scales 6-35-3: St. Johns River, Florida; 

 abundant. 



N. heterodon (Cope). Length 60 mm.; head 4; depth 4; color oli- 

 vaceous; chin black; sides with a dusky band; scales 5-36-3, 13 before 

 the dorsal fin; snout pointed; body stout: western New York to Kansas; 

 common. 



N. hlennius (Girard). Length 60 mm.; head 4; depth 5; color 

 pale olivaceous, with sometimes a darker lateral stripe; scales 5-32 to 

 38-4, 15 before the dorsal fin; mouth small, horizontal; snout obtuse: 

 Great Lakes region to Dakota; southward to Tennessee and Texas; 

 abundant in small streams. 



N. scylla (Cope). Length 70 mm.; head 4; depth 4.25; color pale; 

 back greenish; rays of dorsal fin 7; anal 7; scales 31 to 33; body 



