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from Charleston S. C. Jordan and Evermann now give the dis- 

 tribution of this form as extending from Virginia to Texas. It 

 appears to reach a little farther northward if the references 

 to De Kay are properly made. His Labeo gibbosus and 

 e s o p u s and the Catostomus tuberculatus seem to 

 indicate the southern chub sucker. 



The species reaches the length of 1 foot. It has very little 

 value as food, but the young furnish excellent food for the larger 

 fishes and are very interesting for aquarium purposes. 



60 Erimyzon sucetta oblongus (Mitchill) 

 Chub Sucker; Creek Fish 



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

 Labeo elegans DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 192, pi. 31, fig. 100, 1842. 

 Labeo oUongus DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 193, pi. 42, fig. 136, 1842. 

 Moxostoma ablongum GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VII, 21, 1868. 

 Erimyzon sucetta JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. M\is. 133, 1883; 



GOODE, Fish, and Fish. Ind. U. S. pi. 220, 1884; BEAN, Fishes Penna. 



27, 1893 (part). 

 Erimyzon sucetta oblongus JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



186, 1896, pi. XXXVI, fig. 89, 1900. 



The northern chub sucker has the body more slender, its 

 greatest depth being less than one third of the total length with- 

 out the caudal. The nape is less gibbous than in E. sucetta. 

 The caudal peduncle is more slender, its greatest depth being 

 scarcely one third of the greatest depth of the body (two fifths in 

 sucetta). The head is small and short, the eye less than one 

 fifth as long as the head, the dorsal base shorter and the fins 

 containing fewer rays (11 in sucetta oblongus, 14 in 

 sucetta). 



This is known as the chub sucker, sweet sucker, rounded 

 sucker, creekfish and mullet. It has a wide range, practically 

 including all the waters of the United States east of the Rocky 

 mountains. 



The chub sucker grows to a length of about 1 foot. It is very 

 tenacious of life and is a ready biter, but has little value for 

 food. The young up to the length of several inches have a very 

 distinct black lateral band. They are often found in the shelter 

 of water lilies and other aquatic plants close to brackish waters. 



