DCHP-1 Online
white carp Obs. 
the carp sucker, Carpiodes carpio.
- 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 (1801) There are trouts of three kinds . . . sturgeon, pickerel, pike, red and white carp. . . .
- 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.