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766. Erimyzon sucetta (Lacepede). Chub; Chub sucker; Creekfish; Creek 



sucker. 

 Coastwise streams, Pennsylvania and south; very abundant southward. 

 Cyprinus sucetta Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 606, South 



Carolina. 

 Moxostoma kennerlyi Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VIII, 1856, 



171, Dry Creek, Victoria, Te.x. 

 Mcxostoma campbelli Girard, loc. cit., 172, Live Oak Creek and Devil 



River, Tex. 

 Moxostoma tenue Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, 1855, 203, Mobile. Ala. 

 Erimyzon goodei Jordan, Bull. V. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 1878, 148, St. 



•Johns River, Fla. 



767. Erimyzon oblongus (Mitchill). Chuh sucker; Sweet sucker; Mullet; Creek 



fish; Pin minnow. 

 Great Lakes region to Maine and the Dakotas, south to Virginia and 



Oklahoma; very abundant; replacing the deeper-bodied sucetta north- 

 ward; the two probably intergrading. 

 Cyprinus oblongus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 459, 



S'evv York. 

 Catostomus gibbosus LeSueur, Connecticut River, Northampton; tubercu- 



latus, Germantown, Pa.; and vittatus, Wissahickon River, Pa.; Jour. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1817, 92, 93, 104. 

 Catostomus fasciolaris Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 58, Ohio River. 

 Labeo elegans, New York; esopus, New York; and elongntus, Mohawk 



River; DeKay, N. Y. I^auna: Fishes, 1842, 192, 195, 394. 

 Moxostoma clariformis Girard, I rcc. Aced. Nat. Sci. 1 ila., VIII, 1856, 



171, Coal ("reck, Canadian River, Indian Territory [Okla.] 



Genus 286. MINYTREMA Jordan. Spotted suckers. 



Mini/tremn Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. 2, 1878, 318 (Catostomus melanops 

 Rafinesque). 



768. Minytrema melanops (Rafiiiesciue). Spotted sucker; Striped sucker; 



Winter sucker; Sand sucker; Black winter sucker. 

 Great Lakes region to North Carolina and west to Te.vas and Montana; 



rather common westward. 

 Catostomus melanops Rafincscjue, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 57, Ohio River. 

 Catostomus fasciatus LeSueur, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 



Poiss., XVII, 1S44. 333 (449), Mississippi River. 

 Moxostoma victoriae Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., \TII, 1S56, 



171, Dry Creek, Victoria, Tex. 

 Ptyrhostomus haydeni Girard, loc. cit., 172, Yellowstone River; Missouri 



River at Fort Pierre, Xeb. 



Genus 287. MOXOSTOMA Rafinesque. Redhorse. 



Moxostoma Rafincsciue, Ichtii. Ohiensis, 1820, 54 (Catostomus anisurus 

 Rafinesque). 



Terelulus Rafinesque, loc. cit., 57 (Catostomus aureolus LeSueur). 



Ptychostornus Aga.'^siz, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts., XIX, 1855, 203 (Catos- 

 tomus aureolus LeSueur). 



Af/jXDslonid Jordan; corrected orthography. 



760. Moxostoma papillosum (Cope). White mullet. 



Lowland .streams, from the Dismal Swamp in Virginia to the Ocmulgee 



River, Ga. 

 Ptyrhostotnus papillosus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila., XI, 1870, 

 470, Catawba and Yadkin Rivers, N. C. 



770. Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque). White-nosed sucker. 



i)\\u> River. (Ireat Lakes region and Lake of the Woods; not very 



coninon, but widely distributed. 

 Catostomus anisurus Rafinesc|ue, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 54, Ohio River. 

 Caldstomus rarpin Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVII, 



1S44, 457, Lake Ontario, not of Rafincscjue. 

 Ptychostornus velatus Cope, Proc. .\mer. Phil. Soc., XI, 1870, 471, 



Youghiogheny River, Pa. 

 Moxostoma valenriennesi Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 



73; substitute for Catostomus carpio Cuvier and Valenciennes; 



preo(cupied. 



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