FISHES OF LORAIN COUNTY, OHIO. 15 
22. Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque). Wuire-nosep 
SUCKER. 
[Jord. Man. 80. O. St. Surv. 44.] 
Body heavy and compressed, somewhat arched. Dorsal fin of 
more than 15 rays (15-18); upper lobe of caudal fin longer than 
lower; color dusky bronze. Length 20 inches. 
Not as common as the next two. 
23. Moxostoma macrolepidotum var. duquesnei 
(Le Sueur). BiG-MoUTHED MULLET. ‘‘BLack Horse.” 
[Jord. Man. 81. O. St. Surv. 46. ] 
Body somewhat compressed. Head large (4 to 4 3-4 times in 
length). Mouth large with thick lips. Olivaceous, fins orange red. 
Length of largest measured, 2 feet. (See plate 3.) 
Very common in the lake and larger streams. 
24. Moxostoma aureolum (Le Sueur). SMALL-mMouTHED 
MuLLET. Lake RED-HoRSE. 
[Jord. Man. 82. O. St. Surv. 45.] 
Like the preceding, dut the head ts shorter and smaller. Mouth 
small. Head 4 1-2 to 5 1-4 times in body. Dorsal fin usually with 
T3erays.. wength; 2. feet. 
Nore.—It is difficult to distinguish the three Woxostome at 
sight, careful examination and measurements often being necessary to 
make discriminations certain. These are the ‘‘Suckers” or ‘* Mul- 
lets” that crowd up the larger streams in such numbers in April to 
spawn on the riffles; by the middle of May most of them have re- 
turned to the lake, but small ones, up to 8 inches or more, can be 
found allsummer. Dr. Kirtland, speaking of aureolum, says: ‘At 
the first approach of spring it resorts to the mouths of rivers and 
smaller streams in great numbers to spawn. We have seen them 
congregating in large numbers on riffles in the Cuyahoga River, 
near the eight-mile lock, even before the ice had left the stream.”’ 
I have not been able to watch the large streams closely in the 
early spring, but I do not think that suckers get on to the riffles 
now in any number before the water gets the ‘chill taken off.” 
My experience has been that the same kind of weather that brings 
the snipe on to the marsh, draws the fish on to the riffles. The fish 
seem to spawn at night, and often may be seen lying in clusters of 
five or six, obliquely across the current, in the most rapid part of 
the stream. 
A lot of 50, taken April 13th in Vermillion River, averaged two 
