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Catostomidae
lake chubsucker
Erimyzon sucetta
Thousands of eggs on vegetation
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Fusiform
Mediumlake chubsucker is known from North America as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Catostomidae
- Genus
- Erimyzon
- Maximum length
- 41 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North America: Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin lowlands from southern Ontario in Canada to Wisconsin, USA and south to Gulf of Mexico in the USA; Atlantic Slope from southern Virginia to southern Florida in USA; Gulf Slope drainages from Charlotte Harbor, Florida to Guadalupe River in Texas, USA.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
