Chub Sucker 



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Chub Sucker 



Only one species is known, E. siicetta, the chub sucker or 

 creekfish, which reaches a length of about lo inches and is 

 widely distributed from the Great Lakes and New England south 

 to Texas. Those in the northern part of the range have been 

 regarded as a subspecies, E. suceiia oblongtts. 



GENUS MINYTREM/I JORDAN 



This genus may be known by the incomplete lateral line 

 and the presence of a small blackish spot at base of each scale 

 on side, these forming interrupted longitudinal lines along the 

 rows of scales. 



Spotted Sucker 



The single species is 

 sucker or spotted sucker. 



M. melanops, known as the winter 

 It reaches a moderate size and is of 



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