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Neuse from Goldsboro upward, and has also been found in the lower Neuse at 

 Kinston, where in 1875 and 1883 J. W. Milner collected specimens now in the 

 National Museum. In June, 1905, Mr. C. S. Brimley obtained several specimens 

 in Lake Ellis, Craven County; these are now in the State Museum at Raleigh. 

 It has no distinctive name in North Carolina, and is called simply "mullet". 

 The maximum length is about 10 inches. 



Fig. 22. Chub Sucker. Erimyzon sucetta. 



Genus MINYTREMA Jordan. Spotted Suckers. 



Intermediate between Erimyzon and Moxostoma; form elongate; mouth 

 inferior, horizontal, upper lip large, lower lip small, v- shaped, with folds; gill- 

 rakers long; scales large; lateral line absent in young, interrupted in adult; dorsal 

 and anal fins short and high, caudal slightly forked. One species, of moderate 

 size. (Minytrema, reduced aperture, in allusion to imperfect lateral line.) 



45. MINYTREMA MELANOPS (Rafinesque). 

 "Black Winter Sucker"; Spotted Sucker; Winter Sucker. 



Catostomus melanops Rafinesque, Ichthyologia Ohiensis, 57, 1820; Ohio River. 

 Minytrema melanops, Jordan, 18896, 132; Haw River, tributary of Cape Fear River. 

 1896, 187, pi. xxxvi.figQO. 



Jordan & Evermann, 



Diagnosis. — Depth about .25 length, greater in adults than in young; head rather less 

 than .33 total length; eye small, .16 to .20 length of head; dorsal rays 12, anal rays 7; scales 

 large, 44 to 48 in lengthwise series, 12 to 14 in crosswise series. Color: dusky above, pale 

 below with brassy luster; a black spot at base of each scale along sides of body forming dis- 

 tinct lines; a black spot on back behind dorsal fin; old males in spring with tubercles on head. 

 {melariops, having a black appearance.) 



While this sucker has a wide range, extending from the Great Lakes to 

 Texas, it is a rare species in North Carolina. It is known from Reedy Fork of 

 Haw River, a tributary of Cape Fear River, at a point 11 miles northeast of 

 Greensboro, where two specimens were obtained by Dr. Jordan in 1888 and 



