A Check-list of the Fishes of the Great Lakes and Tributary Waters |
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Acad Agassiz Anal fin anal rays Anal spines atherinoides bairdii base basin bifrenatus biguttatus blennius blotches blue pike Body Boleosoma breeding males Bull caprodes caudal fin Color Cope Copeia cornutus Cottogaster darter developed distinct Dorsal fin dorsal rays drainage basin Eigenmann Eigenmann and Eigenmann Etheostoma exilis frenum genera Genus Gill-rakers Girard Hadropterus heterodon heterolepis Hubbs and Greene hudsonius Hybopsis Imostoma intergrade Jordan Jordan and Evermann Kirtland Koelz Lacépède Lake Erie Lakes region lateral line less Leucichthys Linnaeus lower jaw Margariscus margin Michigan micropogon Mitchill Mouth Moxostoma Museum Nocomis nominal species Notropis Notropis deliciosus Nuptial tubercles oblique Ohio pectoral Pelvic fins Percina Percina caprodes Poecilichthys posterior premaxillaries Proc Rafinesque River Salmo scales slender soft rays specimens spot Subgenus subspecies Sueur synonym synonymy teeth tip of snout tributary trout typical U. S. Fish Comm U. S. Nat upper jaw usually vertebrae volucellus Walbaum
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Page 14 - Vomer without raised crest, only the head being toothed ; hyoid bone with very weak teeth or none; species...
Page 10 - Premaxillaries meeting in front at a very acute angle, so that the emarginate front of the upper jaw receives the slender tip of the lower; fore part of cheeks very deep, deeper than long; jaws toothless...
Page 15 - Marine salmon, anadromous, with the vomerine teeth little developed, those on the shaft of the bone few and deciduous; scales large (Lat. 1. 120) ; caudal well forked, truncate in old individuals; no hyoid teeth; sexual differences strong ; breeding males with the lower jaw hooked upwards, the upper jaw emarginate or perforate to receive its tip (SALMO) salar.
Page 14 - ... shaft of the vomer in alternating rows or in one zigzag row, those on the shaft placed directly on the surface of the bone, not on a free crest.
Page 6 - Teeth of the buccal funnel not in distinct radiating series, but in several groups : several enlarged lateral teeth, usually multicuspid, at the edge of the oral opening; a marginal series around edge of disc; few to many teeth on the anterior part of the disc; supraoral broad, the main cusps being separated by a bridge; fins about as in Petromyzon.
Page 2 - Bradshaw H. Swales and Dr. WW Newcomb. The Occasional Papers, publication of which was begun in 1913, serve as a medium for the publication of brief original papers based principally upon the collections in the Museum. The papers are issued separately to libraries and specialists, and when a sufficient number of pages have been printed to make a volume, a title page, index, and table of contents are supplied to libraries and individuals on the mailing list for the entire scries.
Page 15 - ... 7 Vomerine teeth little developed, those on the shaft of the bone few and deciduous ( Salmo salar) 4 Vomerine teeth well developed, those on the shaft of the bone numerous and persistent, arranged in one zigzag or two alternating rows (Figs.
Page 50 - ... in relative size with age) ; black pigment on anal fin typically densest on the membranes near their margin, or in spots forming an obscure longitudinal bar near base of fin, or in faint mottlings on both rays and membranes (in pale and unmottled specimens, membranes and rays about equally pigmented).