SOUTHERN INLAND FISHES. 383 



Common Mud Sucker. — C teres. Le Sueur. 



Dark green head, nearly black ; cheeks bronze and golden, 

 body purplish above, with pink and metallic tints on the sides, and 

 white beneath. Not a good fish to eat, flavor rank. Length 

 sixteen inches. 



Black Mun Sucker.— C. nigricans. Le Sueur. 



Head large and square, black above ; reddish yellow on the 

 sides, with black blotches ; white beneath. Dorsal fin black ; the 

 others reddish. Length ten to thirteen inches. 



Long-finned Chub Sucker. Carpiodes cyprinus. Agassiz. 



Scales variegated with blue, yellow and green ; all the fins are 

 grey-blue. Length twenty inches. A good edible fish. 



Horned Sucker. — Erifnyzon ohlongus, Jordan. 



A small fish reaching nine or ten inches in length. Head dark 

 olive green ; back and sides of body green ;. sides tinged with 

 yellow ; anal fin blackish brown, caudal lighter, and the remaining 

 fins light olive green. Sometimes called Mullet. 



Goldfish ; Golden Carp. — Carassius auratus. Bleeker. 



A well known species much fancied for globes and aquaria, 

 often growing to the length of a foot. Body generally brilliant red 

 or orange above and silvery beneath, although they are found 

 grey, silvery, golden, mottled with black, olive, or almost black 

 even. Their colors vary as much as those of litters of cats or dogs. 



Chub Sucker, — Exoglossum niaxilUngua. Haldeman. 



Color olivaceous ; smoky above ; a blackish band from pectoral 

 to superior extremity of gill opening. Length eight inches. Lives 

 in the rocky parts of running streams, and feeds on physalis and 

 other small fish. 



Gasper-Gou ; Buffalo. 



Weight from one to eight pounds ; has the general conforma- 

 tion of the perch family, with the exception of its mouth, which 

 is formed like a sucker's. Its color is a bright silvery white, with a 



