

CATOSTOMCS TERES. 167 



1838 Carostomus gracilis KIRTLAND, Kept. Zool. Ohio, 168. 



1838 Catostomus nigricans STOKER, Repf. Ich. Mass. 66. (Not of Le Sueur.; 



Catostomus nigricans THOMPSON, Hist. Vermont, 135, 1842. 

 1842 Catoslomus pallidus DEKAY, New York Fauna, part iv, Fishe 1 , 200. 



Catostomus pallidus STORER, Synopsis, 426, 1846. 



1-41 Catostomus aureolas CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. des Poiss. xvii, 439. 

 (Not of Le Sueur.) 



Catoslomus aureolas GUNTHER', Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. vii, 16, 1868. 

 1-oU Catostomus forsttnanus AGASSIZ, Lake Superior, 358. 

 I-;).") Catostomus for si erianus AGASSIZ, Am. Journ. Sc. Arts, 2d series, xix, 208. 



Acomus forsterianus GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 173, 1856. 

 1856 Catostomus sucklii GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat; Sc. Phila. 175. 



Catostomus sucklii GIRARD, U. S. Pac. R. R. Expl. x, pi. li, 226, 1858. 



Catostomus sucklii COPE, Hayden's Geol. Snrv. Wyoming, 1870, 434, 1872. 



Catostomus suckleyi JORDAN & COPELAND, Check List, 156, 1876. 

 I860? Catostomus texanus ABBOTT, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 473. 



f Catostomus texanus JORDAN & COPELAND, Check List, 156, 1876. 

 1860 Catostomus chloropteron ABBOTT, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 473. 



Catostomus chloropterum COPE, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 85, 1865. 



Catostomus cliloropterus JORDAN & COPELAND, Check List, 156, 1876. 

 1876 Catostomus alticolus COPE & YARROW, Wheeler's Expl. W. 100th Mer. v, Zool. 677. 



Catostomus alticolus JORDAN & COPELAND, Check List, 156, 1876. 



1876 Moxostoma trisignatum (COPE) COPE& YARROW, Wheelers Expl. W. 100th Mer. v, 

 Zool. 679. 



Enmyzon trixignatus JORDAN & COPELAND, Check List, 157, 1876. 

 HABITAT. All streams frcm Labrador to Florida and westward to the Rocky Mount- 

 ains. Everywhere abundant. The most widely distributed of the Catostomidce. 



This species is the commonest of all the Suckers in nearly every 

 stream east of the Eocky Mountains. In Canada, in Xew England, in 

 the Great Lakes, iu the Mississippi Valley, in South Carolina, in Georgia, 

 in Alabama, it is everywhere the commonest Sucker, and it certainly 

 occurs in Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, and Texas, though how 

 abundantly I am unable to say. 



This species is everywhere the one to which the name of " Sucker 77 

 primarily belongs, the other species, though often called u Sucker 77 , as 

 a sort of general term, receiving the special names of Eed Horse, Buffalo, 

 Mullet, Chub Sucker, etc. 



This species is subject to considerable variations in different waters. 

 In shaded brooks, it is dark-colored and rather slender. In open or 

 muddy waters, it becomes pale. In the Great Lakes, it often reaches a 

 considerable size and a proportional stoutness of body. The adult is 

 usually uniformly colored above. Young fishes 1 J to 3 inches in lerfgth 

 are often variegated, and sometimes show three or four lateral dark 

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