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The white sucker is a long, round-bodied fish with a dark green, grey, copper, brown, or black back and sides and a light underbelly. The fish also has typical features of primitive Cypriniformes fishes, such as a homocercal tail, cycloid scales, and dorsal, pectoral, and pelvic fin rays. [5]
The white suckerfish can reach 30 cm (12 in) in standard length. The adhesive disk is short and wide, the length 34-40% and the width 22-26% of the standard length, with 13-14 lamellae . The pelvic fins are placed far forward and narrowly attached to the abdomen; the dorsal , anal , and pectoral fins are short with reduced rays.
The mouths of these fish are most commonly located on the underside of their head (subterminal), with thick, fleshy lips.Most species are less than 60 cm (2.0 ft) in length, but the largest species (Ictiobus and Myxocyprinus) can surpass 100 cm (3.3 ft).
Catostomus insignis Baird & Girard, 1854 (Sonora sucker) Catostomus latipinnis Baird & Girard, 1853 (flannelmouth sucker) Catostomus leopoldi Siebert & W. L. Minckley, 1986 (Bavispe sucker) Catostomus macrocheilus Girard, 1856 (largescale sucker) Catostomus microps Rutter, 1908 (Modoc sucker) Catostomus nebuliferus Garman, 1881 (Nazas sucker)
The northern hogsucker (Hypentelium nigricans) is a freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Catostomidae, the suckers.It is native to the United States and Canada where it is found in streams and rivers.
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An adult Sacramento sucker representative coloration is a brown or black upperpart and yellow gold or white underpart. At juvenile stage the fish is gray, darker on its dorsal plane, and several spots show on body are present. [5] Other field marks include a conically slender head with a terminally located mouth and medium to large sized lips.
The round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum) is a freshwater species of fish that is found in North American drainages from Alaska to New England, including the Great Lakes except for Lake Erie, [1] and in Arctic tributaries of northeast Asia, as well as northern Kamchatka Peninsula and the northern coasts of the Sea of Okhotsk. [2]