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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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l; ventral if; maxillary 4; mandible 3;longest dorsal ray i\. Body oblong, but little compressed; headshort, conic, the profile abruptly decurved; snout compressed andsomewhat pointed at tip, which is entirely below level of eye;preorbital broad, ; width of eye; maxillary short and very broad,reaching orbit, thus appearing longer than in other species owingto the shortness of the snout; supplemental bone narrow; snout inthe males produced and pig-like in the breeding season; adiposefin very large, extending behind the anal; gillrakers short and thick,shorter than the pupil; scales of back and side in breeding seasoncovered with prominent tubercles. Colour, bluish above, silvery onsides, whiter below; breeding males with the under parts white;all the fins tipped with black; caudal and adipose fins steel-blue. The parrmarks persist on the young for a year ormore. The whitefish found in the headwaters of the Missouri Riverhas been described as a subspecies (cismontamis) of the preceding.
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Broad Whitefish; Muksun from which it was supposed to dififer in its somewhat more slen-der body, shorter pectoral and ventral, lower dorsal, and smallerscales. The two are probably not distinct. The waters of the Missouri Basin from which whitefish havebeen reported are the Yellowstone, Madison, Redrock, Beaverhead,Gibbon and Gallatin rivers, Horsethief Springs, and Big GooseCreek, a tributary of Tongue River, Wyoming. Broad Whitefish; Muksun Corcgomis ke7inicotti Milner This species, known also as Kennicotts whitefish, and theDelta whitefish, was described from Fort Good Hope, BritishAmerica, in 1883. Since then it has been observed in the Meade,Kuahroo, Kuwuk and Yukon rivers of Alaska, and in Great BearLake. These localities indicate its known geographic range. The broad whitefish is one of the largest species of the genus.It reaches a weight of 30 pounds, and as a food-fish is held inhigh esteem. It is said by Dr. Dall to be abundant in the Yukonin both winter and summer, and tha

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