Quillback

Carp-sucker, Carpiodes cyprinus (Le Sueur). Havre de Grace.

Description: 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 / by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann ; illustrated with colored plates and text drawings, and with photographs from life by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. Date: 1902. Source: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/pageimage/8308601. Author: Dugmore, A. Radclyffe; Evermann, Barton Warren; Jordan, David Starr. CollectionErnst Mayr Library of the MCZ, Harvard University. Page ID8308601. Item ID34317 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images). Title ID8234 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images). Page numbersPlate [5]. BHL Page URLhttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8308601. DOI10.5962/bhl.title.8234. Page typeIllustration. CreditNOT_IN_COPYRIGHT : This file comes from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. Deutsch | English | español | français | italiano | 日本語 | македонски | Nederlands | polski | +/−.

Description: quillback, Carpiodes cyprinus, 77mm SL. Potomac River, Hallowing Point, Charles County, MD - 07/11/12. Caught by Maryland Striped Bass Seine Survey. Photo by Robert Aguilar, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Date: 29 September 2006, 06:45. Source: Carpiodes_cyprinus_(S0313). Author: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.