328 Ittrnors NaTuRAL History Survey BULLETIN 
Vol. 26, Art. 4 
Table 2.—Accepted common, scientific, and local names of fishes occurring in Mississippi 
River test-net or other fisheries survey collections made between Caruthersville, Missouri, 
and Dubuque, Iowa, 1944 and 1946.* 
Acceprep Common NAME Screntiric NAME 
Shovelnose sturgeon...... 
Patidlefisht 2.o .vc:cccawens 
Longnose gar...........-. 
Shortnose gar........... 
Allisator:gar i <9 coats: 
OWS ac rctn waNerees Amia calod Linnaeus: 5.0.63. 2s fates os 
Moaoneve sas see Hiodon tergisus Le Sueur. ..............-- 
Gsoideye e.. Socks cine ne Amphiodon alosoides Rafinesque........... 
Birtecie. Sos is eta Pomolobus chrysochloris Rafinesque........ 
Gizzard shad............ 
American eel............ 
Blue sucker. ........:... 
Bigmouth buffalo........ 
Black ibutiaio.... 2. 6 ten 
Smallmouth buffalo...... 
Quillback carpsucker..... 
River carpsucker........ 
Highfin carpsucker....... 
White sucker... ........; 
Spotted sucker.......... 
Silver redhorse.......... 
I ila iis Wrdk fg don hess 
Northern pike........... 
Grass pickerel : «oo isc. 35 
Polyodon spathula (Walbaum)............. 
Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus)............-- 
Lepisosteus platostomus Rafinesque....... . 
Lepisosteus spatula Lacépéde............-. 
Dorosoma cepedianum (Le Sueur).......... 
Anguilla bostoniensis (Le Sueur)........... 
Cycleptus elongatus (Le Sueur)............. 
Megastomatobus cyprinella (Valenciennes). . 
Carpiodes cyprinus (Le Sueur)............. 
Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque)............. 
Carpiodes velifer (Rafinesque)............. 
Catostomus commersonnii (Lacépéde)....... 
Minytrema melanops (Rafinesque)......... 
1 Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque)......... 
Northern redhorse....... Moxostoma aureolum (Le Sueur)........... 
Ametiurus natalis (Le Sueur).............. 
Ameiurus nebulosus (Le Sueur)........... 
Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque).............. 
Pilodictis olivaris (Rafinesque)............ 
Esox:lacias Linnaeuss... 2,08 ee 
Esox vermiculatus Le Sueur............... 
Loca, NAME 
Scaphirhynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque)..| Hackleback, switchtail, sand 
sturgeon 
Spoonbill cat, spoony 
Garpike, billfish, billy gar 
Duckbill gar 
Mississippi alligator gar 
Dogfish, grindle, cypress 
trout, mudfish 
Toothed herring, white shad 
Mooneye 
Golden shad, river herring, 
blue herring . 
Hickory shad 
Freshwater eel 
Missouri sucker, bluefish, 
blackhorse, gourdseed 
sucker 
Redmouth buffalo, stubnose 
buffalo, roundhead buffalo, 
brown buffalo, goarhead, 
bullhead buffalo, bull- 
mouth buffalo, bullnose 
buffalo, slough buffalo, 
trumpet buffalo 
Mongrel buffalo, bugler, 
rooter, reefer, round buf- 
falo, sheepshead buffalo, 
blue buffalo 
Razorback buffalo, roach- 
back buffalo, humpback 
buffalo, channel buffalo, 
liner buffalo, quillback 
buffalo 
Silver carp, carpsucker, cold- 
water carp, quillback 
Silver carp, carpsucker 
Silver carp, river carp, carp- 
sucker, highfin sucker 
Common sucker, fine-scaled 
sucker 
Striped sucker 
Silver mullet 
Des Moines plunger, mullet, 
common redhorse 
German carp, European carp 
American bream, roach ¥ 
Fiddler, catfish, channel cat, 
spotted cat 
Fulton cat, Mississippi cat, — 
chucklehead cat, coal ; 
boater 
Yellow-bellied cat, greaser 
Speckled bullhead 
Bullhead oy 
Hoosier, goujon, shovelnose ~ 
cat, mudcat, yellow cat, 
Johnny cat, Morgan cat, 
flat belly = 
Pickerel, great northern pike, 
northern, pike ‘ 
Little pickerel, grass pike, 
mud pickerel : 
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