GENUS LAGOCHILA JORDAN & BRAYTON 



This is the most peculiar genus of suckers and may be known 

 readily by the nonprotractile upper lip and the split lower lip. The 



Hare-lip Sucker 



single species is the hare-lip sucker, cutlips, split-mouth sucker, 

 rabbit-mouth sucker, pea-lip sucker, or May sucker, L. lacera. 



Hare-lip sucker, showing lower lip. 



It is found in clear streams in the Mississippi Valley, as the 

 Tippecanoe, Wabash, Clinch, Cumberland, Chickamauga and White 

 River of Arkansas. It is most common in the Ozark region. 



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