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733. Pantosteus columbianus Eigenmann. 



Columbia Basin. 



Pa?itosteus columbianus Eigenmann, Amer. Xat., Feb. 4, 1893, 151, 

 Columbia River; perhaps identical with Pantosteus jordani. 



734. Pantosteus virescens Cope. 



Tributaries of Lake Bonneville basin of Utah; abundant in Weber and 

 Bear Rivers; largest of the hard-mouthed or mountain suckers. 



Pantosteus rirescens Cope, Wheeler's Surv., Zool., 1875, 675; by error 

 ascribed to Arkansas River at Pueblo; must have come from the 

 basin of Utah. 



735. Pantosteus lahontan Rutter. 



Streams of western Nevada; Lahontan Basin. 



Pantosteus lahonton Rutter, Bull. V. ii. Fish Com., XXII, 1902, 146, 



with figure; Susan River, a tril)utary of Honey Lake, Little Truckee 



Ri\er, Pro.sscr Creek; misprint for lahontan. 



Genus 279. CATOSTOMUS leSueur. Fine-scaled sucker. 



Catostomus LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila., I, 1817, 89 (Cyprimis 



catostomus Forster). 

 Decactylus Rafinegque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 60 {Catostomus hostoniensis 



^a.finesqne=^Cyprinus comrnersoni Lacepede). 

 Stomocatus Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, 1840, Fasc. 129 {Cyprinus calosto- 



mus Forster). 

 Minomus Girard. Proc. Acad. Xat. S?i. Phila., VIII, 1856, 173 {Caios- 



tomus insiqnis Baird and Girard). 

 Acomus Girard, loc. cit., 173 (Catostomus forsterianus Richardson = 



Cyprinus catostomus Forster). 



Subgenus DECACTYLUS Rafinesque. 



736. Catostomus commcrsonii ,La( ('jjedey. Comtnon sizchcr; White sucker; 



Brook sucker; Fine-.icaled sucker; Black mullet {Sandusky, Ohio); Fine- 

 scaled mullit; Bay mare. 

 Quebec and tlie Great Lakes to Montana, Colorado, .southward to 



Missouri and Gecjrgia; tlu commoncht of the suckers, excessively 



abundant from Massachusett.s west to Kansas. 

 Cyprinus commersonii Lacepede, Hist. Xat. Poiss., V, 1S03, 503, locality 



unknown; wrongly accredited to Commerson, the description and 



figure drawn from an old example long in alcohol. 

 Cyprinus teres Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. X. Y., 1815, 458, Xew 



York. 

 Catostomus communis LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila., I, 1817, 



95, 106, Delaware River. 

 Catostomus hostoniensis LeSueur, loc. cit., lOG, Boston. 

 Catostomus flexuosus Rafausiue, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 59, Ohio River. 

 Catostomus reticulatus Richardson, Fauna Bor.-.\mer., Fishes, 1836, 



303, Alliany River. 

 Catostomus gracilis Kirtland, Kept. Zool. Ohio, 1838, 169, Cleveland, 



Ohio. 

 Catostomus pallidas DeKay, Xew York Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 200, Xew 



York. 

 Catostomus sucklii Girard, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila., VIII, 1856, 175, 



Milk River, Mont. 

 Catostomus chloropteron .\l)bott, loc. cit., XII, 1800, 473, Kansas. 

 ICatostomus alticolus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1874, 138, 



Twin Lake, Colo. 

 Moxostoma Irisignaturr. Cope, Wheeler's Surv., V, Zool., 1875, 679, 



Arkansas River. 

 ICalostomus utawana Mather, Twelfth Rept., X- Y. Fish Com., Surv. 



of Adirondacks, 1884, 36, Blue Mountain Lakes, X. Y.; dwarf form. 



737. Catostomus ardens Jordan and Gilbert. Mullet of Utah Lake. 



Cipcat basin of (tah ancj upper Snake River; Idaho; i(K-ally abundant. 

 Catostomus ardens Jordan aiifl Gilbert, Proj. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, 

 464, Utah Lake, Provo, Utah. 



