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S" Fishes of the Ohio : 
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Lateral line hardly edtved: 
Color. Back brownish or olive, a belt of gilt © 
along the lateral line, with about twelve bluish dots, 
which enlarge towards the tail; an ochrey band runs 
along the back, which is faintly marked with darker 
spots. Abdomehl white and silvery. Fins: nie, rays 
` slightly marked with dark tints. - 
Length A 
Hab. Mahoning river and Lake Being: sc! 
QM D. 80r 9; €, 20; A 7; V. 8; P.R 
^ Observations. Two specimens were brought me 
y an experienced fisherman, who informed me, that 
they were never seen in the Mahoning -till the last 
year. I have since.found several dead specimens | 
upon the shore of Lake Erie, near Cleveland. It is 
> questionable whether this fish should be placed pn 
the genus Luzilus. It has the habits of that family, 
and the position of the vent and the angular : utt f 
of the- preoperculum would seem to refer it there 
but the form and structure of its mouth would p 
haps refer it to Rafinesque's genus Hypentelium; 
to the genus Catostomus. 
It readily bites at a hook, and is employed with 
minnows to bait the hook on “ sett lines.” _ 
— .;:, , PmTrRoMvzow. Lin. 
P. argenteus. Kirtland. The p en 
-Petromyzon argenteus. Kiril. Rep. on the Zool ôf Ohio, pP. 
"T 170, 197. 
Plate IV. Fig. 3. i 
. Head elongated, depressed before the eyes, slightly 
convex above them. Eyes minute, pupils very 23 
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