CATOSTOMIDAS. a2 
Carpiodes velifer (Rafinesque). Quint, BACK; SPEARFISH. 
Head 334 to 4; lips thick, full, flesh-colored in life, the halves of the 
lower meeting at an acute angle; muzzle projecting, conic; eye 4 to 5 in 
head. Back much arched ; depth 2% to 3. Dorsal fin of about 27 rays, the 
anterior rays very long and filamentous, sometimes as long as the base of the 
fin. Caudal deeply forked, its lobes slender, the upper lobe the longer. 
Scales 7-35-5. 
Recorded by Rafinesque for the Ohio river as far as Pittsburg. 
‘Quite common in Ohio river, young ones common in Little 
Miami river and tributaries,’’ Henshall, 1888; Maumee river at 
Antwerp, Defiance, Grand Rapids and Toledo, ‘Tiffin river at 
Brunersburg, Auglaize river at Cloverdale, Oakwood and Defi- 
ance, Blanchard river at Ottawa and Cloverdale, Hoaglin creek 
near Oakland, Beaver creek at Grand Rapids, ‘‘ rather common 
at all these points,’’ Kirsch, 1893 ; Scioto river, Scioto Big Run, 
Mason’s Run and Hell Branch, Williamson and Osburn, 1897 ; 
Scioto river at Ironton, Wabash river at Celina, Wolf creek near 
Dayton, North Fork of Licking river at Newark, R. C. Osburn, 
1899 ; Breakneck creek and Cuyahoga river near Kent, Chippewa 
lake, Wheeling creek at Bridgeport, Ohio river and McMahon’s 
Run at Bellaire, R. C. Osburn, 1g00. 
Cycleptus elongatus (Le Sueur). Brack Horse ; 
MISSOURI SUCKER. 
Depth 4 to 5; head 6 to 8% ; eye small, 6 to 7 in head. D. 30, its long- 
est ray a little longer than head; A. 7 or 8; scales g-56-7. Color very dark, 
males in spring almost black. Length 2% feet. 
Apparently confined in this state to the Ohio river. ‘‘As faras 
Pittsburg,’’ Rafinesque. Recorded for the Ohio by Kirtland and 
by Jordan, and Henshall in 1888 mentions it as ‘‘ not uncommon 
in the Ohio river. 
