DCHP-3

white carp

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the carp sucker, Carpiodes carpio.

Quotations

1784
The Cyprinus Catastomus of Dr. Forster, or Sucker Carp, is a new specie: of which there are two varieties, the Mitheo-Mapeth of the Indians, marked with a broad stripe of red along the lateral line, and found on the sea coast, and the White [carp] or Namapeth, with larger scales, and wholly of a whitish color very scarce in the salt water, but in such plenty in the inland lakes and rivers, as to be even burdensome to the nets.
1789
There are trouts of three kinds . . . sturgeon, pickerel, pike, red and white carp. . . .