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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ribed from theAtchafalaya River, but has since been seen by us in the Ohio atLouisville. It does not appear to be a very common species, notmore than thirty examples having as yet been noted. It is, how-ever, well known to the Atchafalaya fishermen, by whom it isprized equally with the blue and channel cats. Its spawning timein Louisiana is in April and May. Head 4; depth 4.5; eye 7; snout 2.8; maxillary (withoutbarbel) 3; free portion of maxillary barbel longer than head; D.1, 6; A. 24; vertebrae 42; dorsal spine 2 in head; pectoral spine2; width of mouth 2. Head large, broad and heavy; mouth un-usually broad; cheeks and postocular portion of top of head veryprominent ; interorbital space flat; body stout, compressed pos-teriorly, back scarcely elevated; base of dorsal 3.S in head; longestdorsal ray 1.75 in head; dorsal spine strong, entire on both sides;pectoral spine strong, entire in front, a series of strong retrorseserrae behind ; humeral process 2.2 in pectoral spine ; ventrals
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The Bullheads barely reaching anal; caudal moderately forked. Colour, uniformpale-yellowish or olivaceous, no spots anywhere. Length i8inches or less; weight, 3 to 5 pounds. There is a fourth species of this genus in American waters—/. meridionalis, known only from the Rio Usumacinta, insouthern Mexico, but nothing is known of its game orfood qualities, nor is it certain that the species is not, like Am-eiurus dugesi, a fork-tailed Ameiuriis. GENUS ^MEIURUS RAFINESQUE The Bullheads Body rather stout, the caudal peduncle much compressed ;head large and wide; mouth large, the upper jaw usually thelonger; teeth in broad bands on the premaxillaries and dentaries;band on upper jaw convex in front, of uniform width, andwithout backward prolongation at angle; anal fin of varyinglength, with 15 to 35 rays; caudal fin truncate in most species,forked in some. Species several, swarming in every pond and sluggish streamin the Eastern United States and the Mississippi Valley; one or morespecies

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