Big-jawed Sucker 



Georgia in the larger streams; it is probably most abundant in the 

 French Broad River and in the Ozark region. 



Nothing peculiar in its habits is known, and it ranks with 

 the species of redhorse as a food-fish. 



Head 4 in length; depth 34 ; D. 12 or 13; A. 9. Body 

 oblong, moderately compressed, heavy at the shoulders; head 

 large, broad, and flattish above, its upper surface somewhat uneven, 

 eye small, behind the middle of the head; mouth large, the lower 

 jaw oblique when the mouth is closed, the mouth, therefore, pro- 

 tractile forward as well as downward; lips very thick, coarsely 

 plicate, the lower lip full and heavy, truncate behind; free edge 

 of dorsal concave, the longest ray longer than base of fin, ii in 

 head; upper lobe of caudal narrower than the lower and some- 

 what longer. Colour, dark olive green, the sides brassy, not 

 silvery; lower fins and caudal orange red. 



