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Catostomidae
longnose sucker
Catostomus catostomus
Fish Reaching Sixty Four Centimeters in North American Waters
- Temperate
- Upper river
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- East Asia
- North America
- Polar regions
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Fusiform
Largelongnose sucker is a freshwater fish of North America. The species occupies freshwater habitats. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 64 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Catostomidae
- Genus
- Catostomus
- Maximum length
- 64 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: throughout most of Canada and Alaska; Atlantic Slope south to Delaware River drainage in New York, USA; Great Lakes basin; upper Monongahela River drainage in Maryland and West Virginia, USA; Missouri River drainage south to Nebraska and Colorado, USA. Also in Arctic basin of Siberia in Russia. Occurs in Columbia River System (Molly Hallock, pers. comm.).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
