RE: NANFA-L-- More Fish IDs

Irate Mormon (archimedes-in-bayspringstel.net)
Mon, 22 May 2006 18:10:14 -0500

Except for the caudal fin, nothing about this fish looks like a creek
chub - to me, anyway. The fact that the tail does not seem to be as
deeply forked as other any shiners I am familiar with is puzzling, but
it could be a photographic artifact.

-Irate

"He says there's no doubt about it, it was the myth of fingerprints.
I've seen them all and man, they're all the same." - Paul Simon

>> If it had a dark blotch-in-the forward base of the dorsal fin -
>> and a dark
>> patch-in-the tip of the lower lip - and it was taken in Kansas,
>> I'd say it
>> was a Creek Chub (Semotilus atromaculatus).
>>
>> But it doesn't have those characters. Might it be another species of
>> Semotilus, one I'm not familiar with?
>> ______________________________________
>> Steve Haslouer
>> Topeka, KS
>> on the south bank of the Kaw
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