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Lakes by Fred Mather as Catostonnis iitaivana belongs to this species. It is simply 

 a dwarfed form inhabiting small mountain creeks. 



The Common Sucker reaches a length of i8 inches or more and a weight of 

 several pounds. The young of 3 or 4 inches in length are considered by many as 

 being excellent for Black Bass and Wall-eyed Pike, while those a little larger are in 

 demand when one goes trolling for Muskallunge or the Great Northern Pike. This 

 sucker is fairly hardy and quite active, but not brightly colored. 



Head 4 to 414 (3^ to 4 in young); depth 4 to 47^; D. usually 12; A. 6 or 7; 

 scales 10-64 to 70-9. 



Body moderately stout, varying with age, subterete, heavy at the shoulders ; 

 head rather large and stout, conical, flattish above ; snout moderately prominent, 

 scarcely overpassing the mouth ; mouth rather large, the lips strongly papillose, 



COMMON FINE-SCALED SUCKER. 



the upper moderate, with 2 or 3 rows of papillae (4 to 6 in examples from the 

 Upper Missouri basin) ; scales crowded anteriorly, much larger on the sides 

 and below. Color, olivaceous, darkest on back, white below ; males in spring 

 with a faint rosy lateral band ; young brownish, more or less mottled, often 

 with confluent blackish lateral blotches sometimes forming a band ; lateral line 

 imperfect in the young. 



lYOng-nOSed N30;Cl^er,— Catostoimis catostomus (Forster). 



The Long-nosed, Northern, or Red Sucker, is found from New England west- 

 ward in the Great Lakes and the Missouri River basin, northward throughout 

 Canada and northwestward to Alaska. It is the most widely distributed species 

 of the family, and is very abundant northward, but probably does not come south 

 of the fortieth parallel. It reaches a length of 2 to 2^ feet and a weight of 

 several pounds, and is the largest and most important species of the genus. In 



