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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.
Northern hogsucker, H. nigricans: Scientific classification; Domain: Eukaryota: ... (Northern hog sucker) Hypentelium roanokense Raney & Lachner, 1947 (Roanoke hog ...
Suckers were an important source of food for Indigenous Americans across the continent. Many fishing methods were employed with the most elaborate being stone fish traps constructed on spawning rivers, remnants of these traps can be seen today in Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park where the Achomawi people trapped Sacramento suckers .
The Roanoke hogsucker is indigenous to the Dan River subdrainage of the upper and middle Roanoke River Basin in North Carolina and Virginia. [1] [2] [3] They have been found in several small tributaries of the Ararat River in the upper Yadkin-Pee Dee River system in North Carolina and Virginia but is believed to have been introduced there from bait buckets.
Hypentelium nigricans, the northern hogsucker, a sucker fish species found in the rivers of the Mississippi basin from Oklahoma and Alabama northward to Minnesota;
The Alabama hog sucker (Hypentelium etowanum) is a species of fish in the family Catostomidae, the suckers. It is native to several river systems in the southeastern United States . Its range includes much of the state of Alabama and extends into parts of Mississippi , Tennessee , and Georgia .
The sucker feeds on algae, detritus, and small invertebrates from bottom substate using their vacuum-like lips to suck in food; feeding is most active at night. [4] The Sacramento sucker are strong swimmers overall using strategic sources for water flow and can be found in zones of channel margin or debris. [4]
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