''Catostomus'' is a

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of fish belonging to the family

Catostomidae The Catostomidae are the suckers of the order Cypriniformes, with about 78 species in this family of freshwater fishes. The Catostomidae are almost exclusively native to North America. The only exceptions are '' Catostomus catostomus,'' found in ...

, commonly known as suckers. Most members of the genus are native to North America, but '' C. catostomus'' is also found in Russia. Fish from different species of the genus are known to readily hybridize with each other.

Characteristics

The members of this genus have nearly cylindrical bodies. They have large, horizontal mouths, and their lips are very much papillose. They have complete lateral lines. They have from 54 to 124 scales, seven to 17 dorsal rays, usually seven anal rays, and 20 to 44 thin, unbranched rakers on their first

gill arch Branchial arches, or gill arches, are a series of bony "loops" present in fish, which support the gills. As gills are the primitive condition of vertebrates, all vertebrate embryos develop pharyngeal arches, though the eventual fate of these arc ...

es. Their gas bladders have two chambers. The young of many of the species in the genus have three dark grey blotches along their sides.

Species

Currently, 28 recognized species are in this genus: * ''

Catostomus ardens The Utah sucker (''Catostomus ardens'') is a species of freshwater fish in the family Catostomidae found in the upper Snake River and the Lake Bonneville areas of western North America where it lives in a wide range of habitats. It is a large s ...

'' D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1881 (Utah sucker) * ''

Catostomus bernardini The Yaqui sucker (''Catostomus bernardini'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. It is found the Aridoamerica region of northern Mexico and south-western United States. ''Catostomus bernardini'' or Yaqui sucker belongs to ...

'' Girard, 1856 (Yaqui sucker) * ''

Catostomus bondi ''Catostomus'' is a genus of fish belonging to the family Catostomidae, commonly known as suckers. Most members of the genus are native to North America, but '' C. catostomus'' is also found in Russia. Fish from different species of the genus are ...

'' G. R. Smith, J. D. Stewart & N. E. Carpenter, 2013Smith, G.R., Stewart, J.D. & Carpenter, N.E. (2013): Fossil and recent mountain suckers, ''Pantosteus'', and significance of introgression in catostomin fishes of Western United States. ''Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 743: 1-59.'' * ''

Catostomus cahita ''Catostomus cahita'', cited as the cahita sucker or matalote cahita, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Catostomidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in t ...

'' Siebert &

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, 1986 (Cahita sucker) * ''

Catostomus catostomus The longnose sucker (''Catostomus catostomus'') is a species of cypriniform freshwater fish in the family Catostomidae. It is native to North America from the northern United States to the top of the continent. It is also found in Russia in rive ...

'' ( J. R. Forster, 1773) ** ''

Catostomus catostomus catostomus The longnose sucker (''Catostomus catostomus'') is a species of cypriniform freshwater fish in the family Catostomidae. It is native to North America from the northern United States to the top of the continent. It is also found in Russia in riv ...

'' (J. R. Forster, 1773) (longnose sucker) ** †''C. c. cristatus''

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, 1883 ** ''C. c. lacustris'' Bajkov, 1927 (Jasper longnose sucker) * ''

Catostomus clarkii The desert sucker or Gila Mountain sucker (''Catostomus clarkii''), is a freshwater species of ray-finned fish in the sucker family, endemic to the Great Basin and the Colorado River Basin in the United States. It inhabits rapids and fast-fl ...

'' S. F. Baird & Girard, 1854 (desert sucker) * ''

Catostomus columbianus The bridgelip sucker (''Catostomus columbianus'') is a fish in the family Catostomidae that occupies the Columbia River system. Like all sucker fish, they live only in fresh water. Bridgelip suckers have a tendency to live in deeper waters duri ...

'' ( C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1893) (bridgelip sucker) * ''

Catostomus commersonii The white sucker (''Catostomus commersonii)'' is a species of freshwater cypriniform fish inhabiting the upper Midwest and Northeast in North America, but it is also found as far south as Georgia and as far west as New Mexico. The fish is commo ...

'' ( Lacépède, 1803) (white sucker) * ''

Catostomus conchos ''Catostomus conchos'', the Matalote conchos, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of N ...

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, 1902 * ''

Catostomus discobolus The bluehead sucker (''Catostomus discobolus'') is endemic to the intermountain Western US. A total of 23 members of the genus ''Catostomus'' has been found in North America. ''C. discobolus'' and ''C. yarrowi'' are two sister species that have ...

'' (Cope, 1871) ** ''C. d. discobolus'' (Cope, 1871) (bluehead sucker) ** '' C. d. jarrovii'' (Cope, 1874) (Zuni bluehead sucker) * '' Catostomus fumeiventris'' R. R. Miller, 1973 (Owens sucker) * '' Catostomus insignis'' S. F. Baird & Girard, 1854 (Sonora sucker) * ''

Catostomus latipinnis ''Catostomus latipinnis'' (flannelmouth sucker) is a North American fish identified by its enlarged lower lips. It belongs to the genus ''Catostomus'', commonly known as suckers. Historically, the flannelmouth sucker ranged in the Colorado River ...

'' S. F. Baird & Girard, 1853 (flannelmouth sucker) * '' Catostomus leopoldi'' ( Siebert &

, 1986) (Bavispe sucker) * ''

Catostomus macrocheilus The largescale sucker (''Catostomus macrocheilus'') is a species of sucker, a type of freshwater fish, found in western North America. Description It has a rounded snout with a downturned mouth on its underside (as opposed to a mouth at end of ...

'' , Girard, 1856 (largescale sucker) * '' Catostomus microps'' Rutter, 1908 (Modoc sucker) * '' Catostomus nebuliferus''

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, 1881 (Nazas sucker) * '' Catostomus occidentalis'' Ayres, 1854 ** ''C. o. lacusanserinus'' Fowler, 1913 (Goose Lake sucker) ** ''C. o. mnioltiltus'' (Monterey sucker) ** ''C. o. occidentalis'' Ayres, 1854 (Sacramento sucker) * ''

Catostomus platyrhynchus The mountain sucker (''Catostomus platyrhynchus'') is a sucker found throughout western North America, on both sides of the Rocky Mountains, including the upper Missouri River, Columbia River, Sacramento River, and Colorado River. It is not li ...

'' (Cope, 1874) (Mountain sucker) * '' Catostomus plebeius'' S. F. Baird & Girard, 1854 (Rio Grande sucker) * ''

Catostomus rimiculus The Klamath smallscale sucker ''(Catostomus rimiculus)'', also known as the Jenny Creek sucker, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. It is a freshwater fish that primarily inhabits the Trinity and Klamath River watersheds, a ...

'' C. H. Gilbert & Snyder, 1898 (Klamath smallscale sucker) * '' Catostomus santaanae'' ( Snyder, 1908) (Santa Ana sucker) * '' Catostomus snyderi'' C. H. Gilbert, 1898 (Klamath largescale sucker) * '' Catostomus tahoensis'' T. N. Gill & D. S. Jordan, 1878 (Tahoe sucker) * '' Catostomus tsiltcoosensis'' Evermann &

, 1898 * '' Catostomus utawana'' F. W. Mather, 1886 (summer sucker) * ''

Catostomus warnerensis The Warner sucker (''Catostomus warnerensis'') is a rare species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. Native to Oregon in the United States and found only in the Warner Basin, its distribution extends just into Nevada

'' Snyder, 1908 (Warner sucker) * ''

Catostomus wigginsi The Opata sucker, or ''matalote Opata'' (''Catostomus wigginsi''), is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the ...

'' Herre & Brock, 1936 (Opata sucker)

References

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