The Cone-head Minnow 



A hardy, active minnow, and of an attractive colour, as a live 

 bait it is unsurpassed. 



Head 4; depth 4^; D. 8; A. 7; scales 6-41-4, 18 in front of 

 dorsal; teeth 1,4-4,1, or 1,4-4,0, sometimes 4-4. Body stout, little 

 elevated, and not much compressed; head large, broadly rounded 

 above; snout bluntly conical; mouth rather large, subterminal, 

 little oblique, the lower jaw somewhat the shorter; upper lip below 

 level of eye; maxillary not reaching front of eye; barbel well 

 developed; dorsal fin rather posterior, slightly behind insertion of 

 ventrals: caudal broad, little forked; scales large, not crowded 

 anteriorly; lateral line somewhat decurved. Colour, bluish-olive 

 above; sides with bright green and coppery reflections; a curved 

 dusky bar behind opercle; scales above with dark borders; belly 

 pale but not silvery, rosy in males in spring; fins all pale orange, 

 without black spot; males in spring with a crimson spot on each 

 side of head; adults with top of head swollen, forming a sort of 

 crest covered with tubercles; young with a dark caudal spot. 

 Length 6 to 12 inches. 



Cone-head Minnow 



Mylopharodon conocephalus (Baird & Girard) 



Head j\\ depth 4|; eye 7; snout about 3; D. 8; A. 8; scales 

 17-74-7. Body elongate, subfusiform, compressed ; head broad and 

 depressed; the snout tapering; mouth horizontal, the jaws about 

 equal, the maxillary extending to the eye; eye small, preorbital 

 elongate; interorbital space as wide as length of maxillary, 3 in head; 

 scales rather small, loosely imbricated ; dorsal fin a little behind 

 ventrals; caudal fin \\ in head, the lower lobe the longer; caudal 

 peduncle very long, 4^ in length of body. Colour, dark, paler below, 

 no red. This minnow reaches a length of 2 or 3 feet and is of some 

 value as a food-fish. It is found only in the Sacramento-San 

 Joaquin basin. 



Columbia Chub 



Mylocheilus caurinus (Richardson) 



The Columbia chub occurs in the streams and lakes of British 

 Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon, chiefly in 

 the Columbia River basin and waters about Puget Sound. 



In the Columbia basin it ascends in Clarks fork at least as 

 far as Flathead Lake, and in Snake River to Shoshone Falls. 



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