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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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re too prone to seek the bottom. They are, however,often seen in the live-boxes of the thrifty dealer in live bait, who will assure theunsophisticated angler that they are equal to the best. FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 341 Cfytlb v^tlCl^er,— Erimyzon sucetta (Lacepede). This interesting little sucker is found from New England and the Great Lakessouthward in the Atlantic slope and the Mississippi Valley to Florida and Texas.It attains a length only of 8 or 10 inches, and is not much valued as a food-fish. Itinhabits the smaller, quiet creeks and the smaller lakes, preferring cool water andmuck bottom. It is the only species of its genus and may be known from othersuckers by the entire absence of the lateral line. As live bait, the young are prob-ably somewhat superior to those of the three preceding species, as the color ismore silvery. Head 4%; depth 3 ; eye 4^; D. usually 12 ; A. 7 ; V. 9; scales 36,-15. Body rather short, compressed, becoming gibbous with age, the antedorsal
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CHUB SUCKER. region more or less elevated in the adult, the depth ranging from 2j4 in the adultto 4 in the young; head short and stout, the interorbital space wide; scalesusually closely imbricated and more or less crowded anteriorly, but often showingirregularities in arrangement. Color varying much with age ; usually showing pale streaks along the rows ofscales; young with a broad black lateral band bordered above by paler; in examplesfrom clear water this band is jet-black and very distinct, in others it is duller ; laterthis band becomes broken into a series of blotches which often assume the form ofbroad transverse bars; in adults these bars disappear and the color is nearly uni-form brown, dusky above, paler below, everywhere with a coppery or brassy, never 342 REPORT OF THE silvery, luster; fins dusky or smoky brown, often quite reddish. The sexual dif-ferences are strong; males in spring usually with 3 large tubercles on each side ofthe snout, and with the anal fin more or les

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