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Common Name Scientific Name Image Native Non-Native Notes Pacific Lamprey: Lampetra tridentata: River Lamprey: Lampetra ayresl: Pit-Klamath Brook Lamprey: Lampetra lethophaga
The Santa Ana sucker (Catostomus santaanae) is a freshwater ray-finned fish, endemic to California. It is closely related to the mountain sucker and has dark grey upper parts and silvery underparts. It grows to a maximum length of 25 cm (10 in), but most adults are much smaller than this.
The golden trout is normally found in the Golden Trout Creek (tributary to the Kern River), Volcano Creek (tributary to Golden Trout Creek), and the South Fork Kern River. The Golden trout is the official freshwater state fish of California since 1947. [2] [3] The California golden trout is closely related to two rainbow trout subspecies.
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The pharyngeal teeth are distinctly long, straight, and knife-shaped, not seen in similar species in California; the grinding surface of the blackfish, used to process its food, is relatively narrow. [4] Adults commonly reach a length of 35 centimetres (14 in), but they have been recorded at up to 55 centimetres (22 in) in length. [3]
The largest freshwater fish in North America, which was once abundant in California’s major rivers and San Francisco Bay, has declined in numbers to a point that state officials will consider ...
Sacramento pikeminnow is a common widely distributed species that is native to California. [ 7 ] Its natural distribution includes low and middle elevation run of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Province, the Clear Lake Basin and the Pajaro - Salinas and Russian river systems.
The sucker is a common food item for Bald eagles located in bird impoundments adjacent the Pit River and American River. [ 16 ] The archived tissue samples of the Asian clam ( Corbicula fluminea ), caddisfly ( Hydropsyche sp.), as well as the Sacramento sucker ( Catostomus occidentalis ) were involved in a carbon and nitrogen isotope signature ...