828 FISHES—CATOSTOMIDA. 
45. MyxostoMA AUREOLUM (LeSueur) Jordan. 
Golden Red Horse; Lake Mullet. 
Catostomus aureolus, LESUEUR, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1817, 95.—KIrRTLAND, 
Rept. Zool. Ohio, 1838, 168; Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., iii, 1840, 349 —DEKay, New 
York Fauna, part iv, Fishes, 1842, 201—SrormrR, Synopsis, 1846, 420.—Agassiz, 
Lake Superior, 1850, 357.—GuNTHEk, Cat. Fishes Brit, Mus. vii, 1868, 16. (In part; 
description apparentiy copied and confused.) 
Ptychostomus aureolus, AGAssiz, Am, Journ. Sci. Arts, 2d series, xix, 1855, 204.—PUTNAM, 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1863, 10—Copxn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 285; 
Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. Phila., 1870, 476. 
Moxostoma aureolum, JORDAN, Man. Vert., 1876, 295. 
Teretulus aureolum, NELSON, Ball. No. 1, Ills. Mus. Nat. Hist , 1876, 49. 
Teretulus awreolus, JORDAN and COPELAND, Check List, 1876, 157. (Name only.) 
Moxosioma aureola, JORDAN and GILBERT, in Klippart’s Rept., 1876, 54. (Name only.) 
Myxostoma aureola, JORDAN, Man. Vert. E. U. S., 2d Ed., 1878, 314; Ball. U. S. Mus, xii, 
124, 1878. 
Catostomus lesueurti, RICHARDSON, Franklin’s Journal, 1823, 772. 
Cyprinus (Catostomus) sueurii, RICHARDSON, Faun. Bor.-Am., Fishes, 1836, pp. 118, 303. 
Catostomus sueurit, CUV. and VAL., Hist. Nat. des Puissons, xvii, 1844, 475.—SToRER, Sy- 
nopsis, 1847, 425. 
Catostomus sueurt, DEKay, New York Fauna, part iv, Fishes, 1842, 203. 
Ptychostomus sueurit, Copr, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. Phila., 477, 1870. 
Teretulus sueurti, JORDAN and COPELAND, Check List, 1876, 157. (Name only.) 
Catostomus macrolepidotus, GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vii, 1868, 18. (Excl. syn.) 
Description.— Body moderately elongate, compressed, the back somewhat arched ; head 
comparatively short, low and small ; mouth smal], somewhat overpassed by the snout ; 
lips plicate; lower lip full, truncate behind; coloration bright yellowish-brown, not 
silvery, lower fins bright red; head 5 to 54; depth 34; D.13; scales 6-42 to 48-5. 
Length, 12 to 18 inches. 
Habitat, Ohio Valley and Great Lake region and northward. 
Diagnosis—This species may be known from the Common Red Horse 
by the shorter head and smaller mouth. 
Habits.—This handsome Sucker is very common in Lake Erie, and is 
found, though less abundantly in the Ohio River It is confounded by 
the fishermen with the Common Red Horse, and is of similarly little 
value as food. 
46. MyxosToMA MACROLEPIDOTUM (LeSueur) Jordan. 
Common Red Horse; Mullet; White Sucker; Large=-scaled 
Sucker. 
a. var. macrolepidotum. 
Catostomus macrolepidotum, LESUEUR, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1817, 94.—DrKay, 
New York Fauna, part iv, Fishes, 1842, 202.—CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. 
