- long
pharyngeal bone in the throat,
containing a
single row of teeth.
Catostomids are most
often found in rivers, but can be
found in any
freshwater environment...
- appearance. However, the
quillback is not a carp.
Quillback are
catostomids, and like all
catostomids, they do not have
barbels around the mouth. The quillback...
- they are
roughly 60
million years old.
During the
Eocene (55–35 Mya),
catostomids and
cyprinids spread throughout Asia; the
earliest members of the cyprinid...
- carp (Cyprinus carpio), but an easy and
notable difference is that all
catostomids lack the
characteristic barbels of carp, and carp are not
native to North...
-
Sonora Sucker (or Gila Sucker),
Catostomus insignis, is a medium-sized
catostomid fish with 16
other species in the
genus scattered throughout North America...
-
found in
Mexico and Guatemala.
Buffalofish are not carp, nor is any
other catostomid; they
belong to
different scientific families having evolved on separate...
-
including gars, bowfin, buffalofishes, carpsuckers, redhorse,
several other catostomids species,
freshwater drum, hiodontids, paddlefish, bullheads, and catfish...
- The V-lip
redhorse (Moxostoma pappillosum) is a
species of
freshwater catostomid fish from
Eastern North America. It
inhabits drainages on the Atlantic...
- are long-lived (lifespans
greater than 20 years), much like many
other catostomid species. The
silver redhorse is the longest-lived
redhorse known by nearly...
- with age, and in some rare individuals, white-edged fins. Like
other catostomids it has a long
dorsal fin, but
unlike all
other extant species it has...
