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Title: American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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y,ventral 6 to 9. Body elongate; snout very short and obtuse,^ to ^ length of head; barbels short and simple; skin betweenrows of shields with many rows of prickle-like plates; shieldsrather large and smoothish; anal lln about half size of dorsal andwholly below it. Colour, dusky or even dark above, paler below.Length 2 to 3 feet.
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GENUS SCAPHIRHYNCHUS MECKEL Snout broad, depressed, and shovel-shaped; caudal pedunclevery long, strongly depressed, broader than deep; rows of bonybucklers confluent below the dorsal fin, forming a complete coatof mail on the tail, which is produced in a long filament beyondthe caudal fin, this longest in the young; gillrakers somewhatfan-shaped; no pseudobranchiae. The single species of this genus is an inhabitant of the UnitedStates, but others closely related, forming the genus Kessleria, arefound in Central Asia.

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