Utah Lake Mullet 



In the spring of the year, as the spawning season approaches, 

 they run up the streams in great numbers and spawn upon the 

 riffles. This is, in most parts of its range, in May or June, and 

 the fish is called the "June Sucker." 



Head 4 to 4|; depth 4 to 5; eye 6 in head; snout 2^; D. 12; 

 A. 7; scales 10-64 to 70-9. Body rather stout, varying with age. 

 subterete, heavy anteriorly; head moderate, conical, flattish above; 

 snout rather prominent, scarcely overpassing the mouth, which is 

 large, the lips papillose, the upper with 2 or 3 rows of papillae (4 

 to 6 in western specimens) ; scales small, crowded anteriorly, larger 

 on the sides and below. Colour, olivaceous; males in spring 

 somewhat rosy; young brownish, more or less mottled and blotched 

 with dark. 



Utah Lake Mullet 



Catostomus ardens Jordan & Gilbert 



This species is very close to the common sucker, differing 

 chiefly in the larger mouth and lips. Abundant in the Snake 

 River basin above Shoshone Falls and in the lakes and streams 

 of the Great Salt Lake basin. It swarms in myriads in Utah 

 Lake, "the greatest sucker pond in the world." In Heart Lake of 

 Yellowstone Park this fish is infested by a parasitic worm (Ligula 

 catostomi) which is often larger than the fish's viscera. 



Like all other suckers, this species is a spring spawner, and 

 at that time immense numbers are said to come into the shallow 



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