818 FISHES—CATOSTOMIDA. 
Catostomus communis, LESUEUR, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila, i, 1817, 95.—DEKay, New 
York Fauna, part iv, Fishes, 1842, 196.—CUvieR and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. des 
Poissons, xvii, 1844, 426.—KIRTLAND, Boston Journ. Nat.*Hist., v, 1845, 265 —StTorErR, 
Synopsis, 1846, 421.—Copg, Joarn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 236 —UsLER and 
LuGGER, Fishes of Maryland, 1876, 138. 
‘Catostomus bostoniensis, LESUEUR, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1817, 106.—SrorER, 
Rept. Ich. Mass, 1838, 84; Synopsis, 1846, 423 ; Hist. Fishes Mass., 1867, 290, pl. 
xxii, f. 3—CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. des Poissons, xvii, 1844, 432.—PUTNAM, 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool , 1863, 10.—GILL, Canadian Nat., Aug, 1865, p 19.—THOREAU, 
Week on Concord and Merrimack, 1868, 38. 
Catostomus flecuosus, RAFINESQUE, Ich. Oh., 1820, 59. 
Catostomus hudsonius, RICHARDSON, Franklin’s Joarnal, 1823, 717. (Not of LeSueur.) 
Cyprinus (Catostomus) hudsonius, RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., Fishes, :1836, 112. 
Cyprinus (Catostomus) reticulatus, RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., Fishes, 1823, 303. 
Catostomus gracilis, KIRTLAND, Rept. Zoo]. Obio, 1838, 163. 
Catostomus nigricans, STORER, Rept. Ich. Mass, 1838, 86 (not of LeSueur) —THompPson, 
Hist. Vermont, —, 1842. 
Catostomus pallidus, DeKay, New York Fauna, part iv, Fishes, 1842, 200—SToRER, 
Synopsis, 1846, 426. 
Catosiomus aureolus, CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. des Poiss., xvii, 1844, 439. 
(Not of LeSueur.) -GUNTHER, Cat Fishes Brit. Mus., vii, 13868, p. 16. 
Catostomus forsterianus, AGaAssiz, Lake Superior, 1850, 368 ; Am. Journ. Sci. Arts, 2d 
series, xix, 1855, 208. 
Acomus forsterianus, GIRARD, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 173. 
Catostomus sucklit, GIRARD, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1856, 175; U. S. Pac. R. R. 
Expl, x, 1858, pl. li, 266 —Copr, Hayden’s Geol. Surv. Wyoming, 1870, 1872, 434. 
Catostomus suckleyt, JORDAN and COPELAND, Check List, 1876, 156. 
? Catostomus texanus, ABBOTT, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila , 1860, 473.— JORDAN and CoPE- 
LAND, Check List, 1876, 156. . 
Catostomus chloropteron, ABBOTT, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 473.—Cops, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 85. 
Catostomus chloropterus, JORDAN and COPELAND, Check List, 1876, 156. 
Catostomus alticolus, CopK and YARROW, Wheeler’s Expl. W. 100th Mer., v, Zool., 1876, 
677.—JORDAN and COPELAND, Check List, 1876, 156. 
Moxostoma trisignatum, (COPE) COPE and YARROW, Wheeler’s Expl. W. 100th Mer., v., 
Zool , 1876, 679. 
Erimyzon trisignatus, JORDAN and CoPELAND, Check List, 1876, 157. 
Description —Body moderately stout, subterete, heavy at the shoulders; head rather 
large and stout, conical, flattish above; snout moderately prominent, scarcely over- 
passing the mouth; mouth rather large, the lips strongly papillose, the upper moderate, 
with two or three rows of papilla; jaws without cartilaginous sheath; fontanelle 
large ; scales crowded anteriorly, much larger on the sides than below; coloration oliva- 
ceous, sometimes dusky ; males in spring with a faint rosy lateral band ; young brown- 
ish, more or less mottled, sometimes with two or three confluent lateral blotches which 
sometimes form a faint lateral band; head 4 to 44 in body (34 to 44 in young); depth 4 
to 4% in length, varying with age, the young slender; scales 10-64 to 70-9. Length, 1 to 
14 feet. 
Habitat, all waters of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains. 
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